How do I identify the genre I am writing in, so I can can inform an agent?
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Comparing to other novels is the easiest way. The borders of each genre seem to be extending anyway, but I would always suggest going for the simplest category.
Sometimes it's quite a problem. I write historical military action-adventure - that's four for a start.
What sort of novel did you intend when you began? Maybe work from that as a main genre and add subs, either as you think of them or come across other novels with similar themes using them. They're only guidelines, after all.
Comparing to other novels is the easiest way. The borders of each genre seem to be extending anyway, but I would always suggest going for the simplest category.
Sometimes it's quite a problem. I write historical military action-adventure - that's four for a start.
What sort of novel did you intend when you began? Maybe work from that as a main genre and add subs, either as you think of them or come across other novels with similar themes using them. They're only guidelines, after all.
Best of luck!
I'd tell them that it's a quasi-post-modernist horror novel for 4-8-year-olds that flirts with existentialism and borders on the poetic.