In the ebook world, the genre is king. Indie-published genres like romance, horror, and fantasy all have larger shares of the ebook market than their traditionally published counterparts. Here's why.

Some additional examples of genre fiction are science-fiction, mystery, western, dystopian and gothic. “Many stories contain elements of several defined genres,” said Wood. Witcover agreed that a ...

In 2015, the only year in the past five when fiction sales rose over the previous year, four novels sold more than one million print copies each, according to BookScan: Watchman (1.6 million ...

Genre, served straight up, has its limitations, and there’s no reason to pretend otherwise. Indeed, it’s these very limitations that attract us.

In the great new sci-fi books and movies of the last 10 years, authors and storytellers have imagined the future in new ways. Editors from Tor, Orbit, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and more weigh in ...

“Romance has been the top-selling genre in the United States since the 1980s, far outperforming any other genre,” said Kait Ballenger, a multi-published, award-winning paranormal romance author.

The value of crime books sold also increased by 10.6% year-on-year in 2017, up from £106.3million to £117.6million. In value terms, general and literary fiction remained the largest genre at £ ...

According to figures released at the London Book Fair this week, Britain has become a nation obsessed by crime fiction. No fewer than 18.7 million crime novels were sold last year, a rise of 19 ...