[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

And even when it does it doesn't always get the tag. I've seen people complaining about "stealth romances" before, and I've seen them myself - a romance book with genre trappings that for some reason won't admit it's a romance. so even in original fiction, people mis-tag. :)

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Romance as a theme can exist in a wide variety of genres. If the plot turns on the other genre, it gets classified as such. It doesn't mean anyone tried to shove it in stealthily -- on the contrary, the book would get a wider audience and more marketing if it was sold as a romance.

And if you think the author has any say whatsoever on the genre the publisher decides to sell the book under, you're very much mistaken. We don't decide, they do, based on where they think the book will sell best.

No one 'mis-tags'. Genfic, if such a thing truly exists at all -- and I don't think it does -- is something different for everyone.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a book sent back for R&R because it wasn't what that editor (and the publisher they worked for) deemed romance-centric enough and that the other plot threads were drowning it out. I'd have labelled it pretty clear-cut romance and it sold to a different publisher as exactly that without making the changes the first house wanted.

So yes, agreed that it's not the writer who's responsible for how/where their books get marketed. One publisher's "thriller with romantic elements" is anothers "romance."