- Introduction
- The Problem of Genre
- The Story of Genre
- Practical Solutions
- Learning Genre
- Bonus: Story has Genre
- Conclusion and Summary
What you'll learn
- How authors and publishers use genre to reach readers
- How authors use genre creatively, to enrich the experience for readers
Description
There's a lot more overlap between creating a great story and marketing a book to readers and publishers than most book creators are prepared to admit.
Genre is probably the single biggest factor in satisfying two critical requirements of a successful book:
That the readers who are going to love the book can find out it exists
That the readers' expectations are met, in a way that makes them want to come back for more.
This short course will teach you the two primary reasons why genre exist, and by giving you access to the underlying principles, enable you to leverage not just the idea of genre, but also some of the most important principles in generating quick and effective reader satisfaction.
One of these lessons is an outline of how to teach yourself what you absolutely have to know about the genre of your own work - not just how to describe it correctly, but how to describe it for readers, agents and publishers, to be sure you reach your audience as quickly as possible.
In this course, I'm using a mixture of knowledge and experience about sales and marketing that I've accumulated during my career as a writing coach, and linking it to the creative process.
This course is free because I think it's a great complement to any of my other courses.
So whatever reason you have for telling stories, whatever reason you have to become an author, to write fiction; whether you want to self-publish your novel or you want to find an agent or publisher, this course will help you not only to sell it, but to conceive and write your book.
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About the instructors
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- 6168 Estudiantes
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Harry Dewulf
Literary Editor and Story Development Expert.
I've spent the last 10 years working with authors to get their books ready for publication, and then getting them published in the new e-book/e-reader/print-on-demand market. Some of my authors have gone on to get publishing contracts, and others are both traditionally and self published, including multi-award-winner Kary English.
My regular clients rely on me to understand and stimulate their creative process. We work together from development of the first story idea , through the drafting, redrafting and editing, right up to packaging and book launch; or they call me in at whatever stage they need me.
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Love this guy. A very engaging and knowledgeable overview, including very practical advice on determining where you particular story should be pegged. Bonus content: 'Icarus with a Go-Pro'. Recommended.
The instructor was insightful and engaging. I wouldn't mind taking another course with him.
I like courses like this. Straight to the point. I have read several article stating how important genre is, but Harry explains why.
Good, informative, short, sweet, and to the point. Thanks!
Excellent speaker, interesting topic. I wish it were a little longer and that the subtitles were edited. As they stand, ‘genre’ is sometimes ‘general’, sometimes ‘john’, mostly incomprehensible. It really affects the student getting the correct info so it would be great if these were fixed.
Excellent course for aspiring authors