The Author Wheel Quick Guide to Understanding Your Genre: How to Write What Readers Want - The Author Wheel Quick Guides - E-book - ePub

Do you know where your book fits in the market? Have you met readers' expectations in your genre? In this Quick Guide to Understanding Your Genre, G. C. Boris and M. Haskell share their unique method of researching their books' genres and tropes, and how they use that knowledge to craft a novel. You'll learn: What genre is and why it's important  Our super-secret method of researching genre How to use genre to craft your book The pros and cons of switching genres How to apply genre knowledge to writing a series This short read cuts straight to the point to get you moving and keep your stories rolling. Who Are We? Greta Boris is the USA Today Bestselling author of The Seven Deadly Murders, a psychological suspense series, The Room for Murder novella series, and The Mortician Murders coming in 2022.
She hails from sunny So. Cal. where-based on her books, which are all set there-things are darker than you'd expect. Her stories have been called atmospheric and un-put-down-able. Megan Haskell is the award-winning author of The Sanyare Chronicles, an action-packed female-led fantasy adventure featuring snarky carnivorous pixies sidekicks and a quest across nine faerie realms. Her other titles include the epic fantasy Forged in Shadow and the women's contemporary fantasy, Aether Bound.
A Southern California transplant, she's living the dream of writing while raising her two daughters in Orange County. Together, Greta and Megan founded The Author Wheel, a website dedicated to helping writers become authors and keep their stories rolling. With over twenty years of writing and publishing experience between them, they've made the mistakes so you don't have to.