Determining Genre Categories for Self-Publishing Authors

Scarlett Braden
Nov 1 · 7 min read
Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay

I’m going out on a limb here, and going to do something Medium doesn’t like much. I’m going to pull a statistical number out of my errr ear, with no citation to back it up. Are you ready? Get all your arguments ready about how I shouldn’t make up statistics.

There are literally hundreds of genre category combinations in which your book could potentially fit. Why am I…

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Scarlett Braden

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Expat. Author. And in the weirdest of plot twists: poet. Self-publishing coach. Conference coordinator. https://www.scarlettbraden.com

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