Tag: general fiction genre

Creating the Bestseller, Sales & Marketing Techniques, Unscientific Generalisations

We Were All Young Adults Once: Why Are We Not All Reading Young Adult Fiction?

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We Need To Talk About Book Pricing

Why is Young Adult Fiction pigeon-holed into a daftly narrow age category? If so-called General Fiction is a mirror held up to society which helps us to cope with what we are – how better to do this, than to look at ourselves while we are becoming what we are? But don’t worry, it’s not all serious. Or perhaps it all is, except for that last sentence. Hmmmm.

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Bestseller Genres, Sales & Marketing Techniques

I Hate Women’s Fiction And I’ll Tell You Why

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A Book-Loving List for Book Lovers Who Can't Find Anything Good to Read

If Colm Toibín’s Brooklyn had been written by a woman, would it have been a smash hit? Would anyone have cared one whit for a story about a young woman and her domestic struggles, if that young woman had been created and written by another woman? No. They wouldn’t.

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