1. Paranormal romance
2. Romantic suspense
3. Suspense/Thriller
4. Urban Fantasy
5. Paranormal/Horror
6. Contemporary romance
7. Historical romance
8. Sci-Fi romance
No straight fantasy or science fiction on that list. No
siree. And I’m really picky about sci-fi romance. Horror moved down quite a
bit, which kind of surprised me. Used to be all I ever read was Stephen King
and Dean Koontz. Not so much anymore. I love romance, but not just romance. I’d
rather have other stuff involved than just internal conflicts. I’m not all that
crazy about the couples hating one another (and if they do, it better not last
long).
Of course, a favorite author will bump any genre down the
list, and I have lots of favorites!
I’ve told you about needing to delete 10,000 words from BITE
ME, I’M YOURS. Well, I managed to hack off over 7,500. My estimation was 5,000,
so it’s nice I under estimated. Still, it would have been nice if I had managed
to reach that magical 10,000-word mark. I’ll read through it one more time (later
on this week) and hope I didn't screw it up too much.
So…how do you rank your genres? Or do you go strictly by
authors?
Stacy
8 comments:
Hmm. I'm not sure I can rank them. I suppose what I read most would be categorized as contemporary fiction, with a literary slant, and I'll dabble around other areas like suspense/mystery, dystopia, I don't know what else.
As for favorite authors, I'll read most everything Stephen King puts out (How's Joyland so far? I haven't gotten it yet), and I've been reading a lot of Chris Bohjalian lately, but I mostly go by what looks interesting as opposed to by author.
My favorites are historical romance, paranormal romance, and SF romance.
Congrats on chopping 7500 words. That's a great accomplishment in so short a time!
Jeff - Joyland is okay. I'm about half-way through and waiting for the blurb to take affect. I don't think any newbie author could get away with that!
Maria - Re: chopping, I shocked myself, too. Don't know if the changes make the story stronger. I sure hope they do. Won't know until I read it over again, I suppose.
I probably put PNR first, along with scifi romance (including time travel) and fantasy romance. Can't really distinguish between any of those to vastly favor one. Then would probably be historical romance, romantic suspense, straight fantasy, scifi, and mystery suspense. I do like other things, but those make up the bulk of my reading. Good luck with Bite Me!
Jennette - The good luck must have worked. She said she'd read it (just can't offer a contract with it over 100,000). One step at a time, right?
Well, mystery/suspense is my favorite. A paranormal element is fine but no vampires or zombies please. And I always like a bit of romance.
LD - No vampires? Say it ain't so! :)
I'm not a huge mystery fan. In fact, the ONLY straight mystery books I read are from authors I know personally.
I can't say as mostly I read cookery and whole foods books. But if I am reading, it's funny kid's books all the way.
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