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The March Patreon panel, What the Heck Even Is Genre?, is early in the month for a change! We’ll be hosting this panel this coming Sunday, March 9th, at 3 p.m., for our Patreon backers at the $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month levels! If you’re a backer, I hope you’ll consider joining us, and if you’re not, it’s always a good time to become one – you’ll get access to our backer blog, our Press Discord, anywhere from 50 to 100+ short stories depending on your backer level (and more every month!), original artwork, recordings of past panels, and more!
Panel Title: What the Heck Even Is Genre?
Description: Throughout the publishing industry, genre is a defining feature of each and every book released. On their faces, the categories sound straight forward: science fiction, fantasy, romance, self-help, humor, on and on. But a cursory inspection shows how nebulous these ideas really are, and also shows how their application in publishing doesn’t necessarily map to include all the contents implied by the title: not all stories about the future are science fiction, for example, and not all romance books are in the romance genre, and genres like “literary fiction” encompass books from many other genres, and new cross-genre designations such as romantasy keep being coined. All of this leads to an obvious question: what the hell even is genre? And that is what we’ll be discussing in this panel!
Topics include: genre as used in traditional publishing; cross-genre works; how we decide what to call the “primary” genre of a work; breaking genre boundaries effectively; and in the end, we’ll discuss if, with all it’s flaws, genre remains a relevant concept for authors and book publishing.
Date: Sunday, March 9th
Time: 3 p.m. Eastern time (converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)
Panelists: Tris Lawrence, Sage Mooreland, Vee Sloane, and J. D. Rivers. Nina Waters will primarily moderate but because it’s a small group, may contribute as well.
