A simple graphic on a pale blue background, entitled "What the Heck Even Is Genre? A Duck Prints Press Panel." The date is given, Sunday March 9 3 p.m. ET. Below this is clipart of stylized, brightly colored comedy/tragedy masks, and bottom rext reads "join patreon.com/duckprintspress for exclusive access.
Text on a blue background. Text reads: 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.
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