What’s My Line — er, Genre? — win a prize!

[mmegaera]

 

I have a question for those of you who’ve read any or all of my Time in Yellowstone series, and there’s something in it for you if you win.

It seems like a simple, stupid question.

What genre are these books in?

Yes, time travel is obvious.  Go beyond that, if you can.  Go bigger, go broader.   Are they science fiction, even without a time machine?  Are they fantasy, even though they’re not epic or urban?  What else might they be?  And what do you think they are?

Name that genre!  And please, only a genre you’d find on Amazon, the genre you’d type in to find stories like mine, not a made-up genre or a description.

Whoever comes up with the best answer, including why, will win a $25 Amazon gift certificate.

Oh, and if you haven’t read any of my books, go here for a free Kindle copy, or here for a free anything else digital copy of my Time in Yellowstone short story Homesick.

 

Mirrored from Repeating History.

Comments

[hedda62]

Ah, I see - well, that's easier, because most bookstores shelve all SFF together, and I think they would have to go there. Or, you know, "fiction."

[mmegaera]

Oh, dear.

Well, no, that's not easier, because if you look at SFF on Amazon, there are literally *dozens* of subgenres within that overarching genre[g].

At which point you'll say, yes, then it's time travel, which is an Amazon category (albeit under science fiction, which really isn't where my books belong).

At which point I say I want a genre that has review blogs I can actually give the book to which might actually review them, which time travel of the non-machine, non-romance kind does not, at least not so far as I can find (and no, I've had no luck with time travel review blogs of either the time machine or romance type).

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. I have committed myself, so I will be giving the gift card to the winner, but I have to say I was hoping for a different kind of response than what I'm getting [wry g].

[hedda62]

Well then, bookstore shelving and Amazon searching are totally different things. But I agree that negatives don't make a category. If I knew that "time travel adventures of the Old West" existed as a thing, and that appealed to me, then I'd be searching under the "time travel" banner for a setting in the West, but I wouldn't know that if I didn't know you. *grin*

It's tough!

[mmegaera]

Yeah. This makes writing the actual books seem easy -- and that's saying something.

[mmegaera]

Or rather, what you'd type into Amazon if you were looking for stories like mine.