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Defining Your Genre

To determine your genre, you have to consider the heart of your story.

Getting Familiar with your Genre

There is a lot you can learn from reading a lot of books, including the patterns of your genre.

Why Genre Matters

Some writers think that genre is something marketing slaps onto a finished book in order to make it sell. But that is not how it works.

What Age are you Writing For?: Young Adult

(This post is part of my "What Age are you Writing For?" series. You can find the introduction and list of age ranges here.) Young adult...

What Age are you Writing For?: New Adult

(This post is part of my "What Age are you Writing For?" series. You can find the introduction and list of age ranges here.) The New...

What Age are you Writing For?: Adult

(This post is part of my "What Age are you Writing For?" series. You can find the introduction and list of age ranges here.) While no...