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 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.

For one thing, most contemporary literary fiction is terrible: mannered, conservative and obvious. Most of the stories in the annual best-of anthologies are mediocre, as are the stories that ...

Types of literature in the fiction genre include the novel, short story, and novella. The word is from the Latin fictiō, meaning “the act of making, fashioning, or moulding”.

No matter how easy it seems, writing is harder than we tend to think. Occasionally it gets really tough even for gifted writers who have been writing for years. - Part 4 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Now the changes I once imagined are upon us. 2016 was the hottest year on record.Before that, it was 2015; before that, 2014. This year, 16 states had their hottest February on record, according ...