Fantasy novels – Marie Alice Writes & Reads

Writing a novel: On Fantasy

I recently went back to an old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand-alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.

The marketing of books created many, many sub-genres for genres fiction in general, and for literary Fantasy especially.

I recently went back to a old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.

Suddenly, I was not writing a Fantasy novel anymore. I was writing… what exactly?

I was at lost. Ends a bit of research on the topic.

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