The data is three years old, not exactly hard data for today, but useful to study the rise and
fall of particular genres.
Not exact matches
Over the next few weeks I am going to be taking a much closer look at each
genre to discover what style, language, themes and characters they have in common and to give you some examples
of literature that
falls into a
particular category.
And if your book
falls into a
particular genre, word
of mouth can also get around to the community that loves that
particular genre — your potential readers — through online forums and the comment sections
of popular web pages.
Ken: On the one hand, having a good backlist help your sales so if you're committed to one
particular genre like in science fiction, when I released a new series in the
fall, it did really well and those readers read my other science fiction series so it had that kind
of cascade effect.
Having spent close to 6 hours with The Surge so far, I feel confident in recommending fans
of this
particular genre give it a try, even if you weren't particularly enamoured by Lords
of the
Fallen.
In
particular, he
fell in love with MMORTS games where thousands
of players can recreate the history
of human politics and war in miniature, but he also ran up against some issues with the
genre.
We've always enjoyed his approachable, friendly attitude to playing games and he did a
particular think - piece on the «dungeon management»
genre of games which EotU somewhat
falls into (we are
of course inspired by Dungeon Keeper) which we found rather touching.