Genre is a marketing category for books that helps readers find similar books they are likely to want to read. Choosing Amazon Book Categories: The Essential Guide
If your intention is to sell your book, you need to know who will want to read it to help them easily find it and buy it. You also need to know what their expectations are of your story, so that they can enjoy reading it.
Who’s my audience? Who am I writing for? What do they expect from the books they love to read? What are their loves and hates?
What tone of voice is usually associated with my story genre? 38 Tone Examples: How to Use Tone in Writing | Fictionary
How many pages, what is the wordcount, how big is the chapter size usually expected for my genre? How Many Words in a Novel? (Updated for 2024)
Titles – are my genre titles usually long or short and pithy? The Four Types of Titles: Which is best for your story? | Happy Dolphin Press
Which authors do my genre readers read? Whose writing style is mine most like?
Which stories or films do my readers love? Which can mine be best compared to?
Which authors and stories do I want my book to sit next to on the bookshop bookshelf? (Take photos!)
