#genre-fiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #genre-fiction, aggregated by home.social.
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Welcome to the 6th Monthly Writing Contest of 2026! The theme is: HISTORICAL, GOTHIC, or PERIOD FICTION.
Please note: Fanfiction is NOT accepted. Please submit original work only.
Winners are featured on Underground Bookshelf!
https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3190763_june-2026-contest-submissions
#writing #shortstories #poetry #fiction #historicalfiction #gothic #gothicfiction #periodfiction #writingcontest #poetrycontest #genrefiction
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Welcome to the 6th Monthly Writing Contest of 2026! The theme is: HISTORICAL, GOTHIC, or PERIOD FICTION.
Please note: Fanfiction is NOT accepted. Please submit original work only.
Winners are featured on Underground Bookshelf!
https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3190763_june-2026-contest-submissions
#writing #shortstories #poetry #fiction #historicalfiction #gothic #gothicfiction #periodfiction #writingcontest #poetrycontest #genrefiction
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Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read
Career Authors
by Brian Andrews Genre fiction is always evolving, and sometimes change can be a beautiful thing! Today’s Career Author’s post highlights four hybrid sub-genres that are winning over readers, new and old. Publishing has always moved in waves. But something different is happening now. Readers aren’t just migrating between genres — they’re colonizing the spaces […]
Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read Brian Andrews…
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Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read
Career Authors
by Brian Andrews Genre fiction is always evolving, and sometimes change can be a beautiful thing! Today’s Career Author’s post highlights four hybrid sub-genres that are winning over readers, new and old. Publishing has always moved in waves. But something different is happening now. Readers aren’t just migrating between genres — they’re colonizing the spaces […]
Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read Brian Andrews…
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 780), I discuss the books of #FrankTallis, the series #ViennaBlood, and the phenomenon of #SigmundFreud in #GenreFiction. #ScienceFiction #HistoryOfScience #Mystery #CrimeFiction #Gothic #Horror #HistoricalFiction #SFF #ForensicScience #Books #Bookstodon
Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-780-p-a-cornell/id166360307?i=1000770891894
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 780), I discuss the books of #FrankTallis, the series #ViennaBlood, and the phenomenon of #SigmundFreud in #GenreFiction. #ScienceFiction #HistoryOfScience #Mystery #CrimeFiction #Gothic #Horror #HistoricalFiction #SFF #ForensicScience #Books #Bookstodon
Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-780-p-a-cornell/id166360307?i=1000770891894
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Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue @higginbothampublications.wordpress.com@higginbothampublications.wordpress.com ·Country Tides: Out Now
She swore she would never love again, but that one knock changed everything. Life is a normal routine for Jane Allman. She wakes up, feeds her animals, tends to her garden, and from time to time, she calls her sister. She isn’t a crazy partier, and she has no need for a relationship. She is happy being on her own. Nevertheless, things change when businesses are brought into her small community and she finds one of the owners, Hadley Grace, at her door asking for a favor. Jane is absolutely […]https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/country-tides-out-now/
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Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue @higginbothampublications.wordpress.com@higginbothampublications.wordpress.com ·Country Tides: Out Now
She swore she would never love again, but that one knock changed everything. Life is a normal routine for Jane Allman. She wakes up, feeds her animals, tends to her garden, and from time to time, she calls her sister. She isn’t a crazy partier, and she has no need for a relationship. She is happy being on her own. Nevertheless, things change when businesses are brought into her small community and she finds one of the owners, Hadley Grace, at her door asking for a favor. Jane is absolutely […]https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/country-tides-out-now/
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... well-moderated panels, readings of new work, and a curated #fanvid show. Info: wiscon.net/2026/05/21/h... #WisCon48 #WisCon2026 #SpeculativeFiction #GenreFiction
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... well-moderated panels, readings of new work, and a curated #fanvid show. Info: wiscon.net/2026/05/21/h... #WisCon48 #WisCon2026 #SpeculativeFiction #GenreFiction
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One of the fun things about #writing, especially #genreFiction, is your search history is like "Names meaning 'mother' ... common Welsh names... anatomically modern human first evolved? ... why is the moon moving away? ... who said 'we are the universe perceiving itself?' ... word meaning opposite of transparent..."
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One of the fun things about #writing, especially #genreFiction, is your search history is like "Names meaning 'mother' ... common Welsh names... anatomically modern human first evolved? ... why is the moon moving away? ... who said 'we are the universe perceiving itself?' ... word meaning opposite of transparent..."
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My fingers have been gliding over the keys, and I've got a new #blogpost for you.
All about My Favourite Reading Genre.
https://forkingmad.blog/this-is-my-genre-golden-age-detectives/
Thanks @alexandra for the prompt.
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My fingers have been gliding over the keys, and I've got a new #blogpost for you.
All about My Favourite Reading Genre.
https://forkingmad.blog/this-is-my-genre-golden-age-detectives/
Thanks @alexandra for the prompt.
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Fresh on my #blog — "This is my genre: Fantasy" which is my contribution to a series of articles on book genres by @alexandra and @joel
#wwwWednesday #books #bookstodon #BookCommunity #fantasy #sff #GenreFiction #BloggingChallenge
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Fresh on my #blog — "This is my genre: Fantasy" which is my contribution to a series of articles on book genres by @alexandra and @joel
#wwwWednesday #books #bookstodon #BookCommunity #fantasy #sff #GenreFiction #BloggingChallenge
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I listen to audiobooks to wind down so I can sleep. I’m looking for recommendations! Fiction only, please.
I’m very particular about the narrator:
Single voice actor only
Distinct characters
No monotone delivery
No background music/sounds/distractions (I loved reading Dune but couldn’t tolerate the audiobook)Examples I love:
Chronicles of St. Mary’s (Zara Ramm, narrator)
Malabar House series (Maya Saroya, narrator)
Rivers of London series (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, narrator)
Murderbot Diaries (Kevin R. Free, narrator)
Logan MacRae series (Steve Worsley, narrator)If you have similar favourites, what are they?
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I listen to audiobooks to wind down so I can sleep. I’m looking for recommendations! Fiction only, please.
I’m very particular about the narrator:
Single voice actor only
Distinct characters
No monotone delivery
No background music/sounds/distractions (I loved reading Dune but couldn’t tolerate the audiobook)Examples I love:
Chronicles of St. Mary’s (Zara Ramm, narrator)
Malabar House series (Maya Saroya, narrator)
Rivers of London series (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, narrator)
Murderbot Diaries (Kevin R. Free, narrator)
Logan MacRae series (Steve Worsley, narrator)If you have similar favourites, what are they?
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Cornell University: Digital humanities scholars chart lost art of maps in novels. “Digital humanities scholars from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers of Computing and Information Science have developed a computational system to mine maps from nearly 100,000 digitized books from the 19th and early 20th centuries, discovering that just 1.7% of novels include maps, mostly at the beginning or end, among […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/cornell-university-digital-humanities-scholars-chart-lost-art-of-maps-in-novels/ -
Cornell University: Digital humanities scholars chart lost art of maps in novels. “Digital humanities scholars from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers of Computing and Information Science have developed a computational system to mine maps from nearly 100,000 digitized books from the 19th and early 20th centuries, discovering that just 1.7% of novels include maps, mostly at the beginning or end, among […]
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Public libraries’ top check-outs in 2025 include ‘The Women’ – NPR
Searching the stacks at a Miami-Dade Public Library on July 19, 2023, in Miami.
Joe Raedle / Getty ImagesGenre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries’ most-borrowed lists in 2025
December 29, 20256:00 AM ET, Heard on All Things Considered
By Neda Ulaby 3-Minute Listen Transcript
Searching the stacks at a Miami-Dade Public Library on July 19, 2023, in Miami. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The Women was among the most checked-out books in U.S. public libraries this year, making top 10 lists in library systems as far-flung as those in Clawson, Mich., Lawrence, Kan., Flathead County, Mont., and the entire state public library system of Hawaii. It was also the year’s most-borrowed ebook on the public library app, Libby.
The bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah follows a U.S. Army nurse from the front lines of the Vietnam War to a family deeply divided about the war and her service. The Women, which came out in 2024, was also extremely popular among public library patrons last year, topping numerous most-borrowed lists, and included in NPR’s “Books We Love.”
“I shouldn’t be surprised, but I kind of was, that The Women was No. 1 yet again,” says Harold Escalante, the assistant director of collections and access for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in North Carolina. “[Hannah] is a powerful storyteller. She’s really good. She’s engaging, she sucks you in with her story, and they’re big books.”
As it happens, books by women dominated most-borrowed library lists in 2025. All of the top 10 books on Libby were by women. Three of the top 10 titles for the country’s biggest public library system, in New York City, were part of a bestselling romantasy series by Rebecca Yarros: Fourth Wing, Iron Flame and Onyx Storm. Yarros’ books also showed up on most-borrowed lists from the Boston Public Library, and public libraries in Boone County, Ky. and Kern County, Calif. Other female authors with multiple titles on most-borrowed lists across the country included Freida McFadden, Holly Jackson and Emily Henry.
Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, a 2024 thriller about the disappearance of a teenager from an Adirondack summer camp showed up on numerous most-borrowed lists, including those in Island Park, N.Y., at the Timberland Regional Library in Washington state, and in Lombard, Ill. Other popular novels this year included The Wedding People by Alison Espach, Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez and Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Public libraries’ top check-outs in 2025 include ‘The Women’ : NPR
#2025 #Books #FemaleAuthors #GenreFiction #MostBorrowed #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #PublicLibraries #ReadingTitles2025 #TheWomen #TopCheckouts -
I'm now free to announce that at World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK, I'll be on two panels.
Feminism and Feminist Themes in Genre Fiction.
Older People in Fantasy and Horror.
Both subjects near and dear to me, so I'm thrilled.#WritingCommunity #GenreFiction #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOfSpeculativeFiction #WorldFantasyConvention #FantasyFiction #HorrorFiction #Feminism
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I'm now free to announce that at World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK, I'll be on two panels.
Feminism and Feminist Themes in Genre Fiction.
Older People in Fantasy and Horror.
Both subjects near and dear to me, so I'm thrilled.#WritingCommunity #GenreFiction #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOfSpeculativeFiction #WorldFantasyConvention #FantasyFiction #HorrorFiction #Feminism
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CW: picture of a syringe
Novella by Naomi Kritzer, out next year, available for preorder now https://bookshop.org/p/books/obstetrix-naomi-kritzer/e32bdffb79dddaf8?ean=9781250423375
boosting @naomikritzer :
"Want to see the cover of my novella OBSTETRIX, which will be coming out next June?
Design by Katie Klimowicz
Retouching by Travis Commeau"https://bsky.app/profile/naomikritzer.bsky.social/post/3lws5dgug6k25
#sciencefiction #sff #scifi #genrefiction #feminism #medicine
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CW: picture of a syringe
Novella by Naomi Kritzer, out next year, available for preorder now https://bookshop.org/p/books/obstetrix-naomi-kritzer/e32bdffb79dddaf8?ean=9781250423375
boosting @naomikritzer :
"Want to see the cover of my novella OBSTETRIX, which will be coming out next June?
Design by Katie Klimowicz
Retouching by Travis Commeau"https://bsky.app/profile/naomikritzer.bsky.social/post/3lws5dgug6k25
#sciencefiction #sff #scifi #genrefiction #feminism #medicine
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From the British Fantasy Society:
UK SFFH event stalwart Alex Davis is gearing up for his latest edition of Edge-Lit, coming up in Derby on 20 September. Here, he reflects on what makes a great event—and has a double-pass for EdgeLit to give away, too!
https://britishfantasysociety.org/the-value-of-events/
#writersofmastodon #writers #edgelit #genrefiction #sffh #speculativefiction #ukbookevents #events #creativetoots
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New-to-me, discovered via Tracy Durnell: the Romance Scholarship Database. From the About page: “As Barbara Fuchs has observed, “Romance is a notoriously slippery category. Critics disagree about whether it is a genre or a mode, about its origins and history, even about what it encompasses” (1). Such slipperiness tends to complicate the search for scholarship about any specific type of romance. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/new-to-me-the-romance-scholarship-database/
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New-to-me, discovered via Tracy Durnell: the Romance Scholarship Database. From the About page: “As Barbara Fuchs has observed, “Romance is a notoriously slippery category. Critics disagree about whether it is a genre or a mode, about its origins and history, even about what it encompasses” (1). Such slipperiness tends to complicate the search for scholarship about any specific type of romance. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/new-to-me-the-romance-scholarship-database/
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Metadata Best Practices for Genre Fiction
Make sure your metadata is in tip top shape for optimal SEO and online discoverability.
https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/metadata-best-practices-for-genre-fiction#BookMarketingandPromotions #ReachingMoreReaders #SelfPublishing #BookMetadata #Genrefiction
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Metadata Best Practices for Genre Fiction
Make sure your metadata is in tip top shape for optimal SEO and online discoverability.
https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/metadata-best-practices-for-genre-fiction#BookMarketingandPromotions #ReachingMoreReaders #SelfPublishing #BookMetadata #Genrefiction
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How to Write in Different Genres
Emiko Jean and Yulin Kuang share tips and strategies for how they successfully write in different genres and mediums.
The post How to Write in Different Genres appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/how-to-write-in-different-genres#Genre #WriteBetterFiction #genre #genrefiction #GenreWriting
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How to Write in Different Genres
Emiko Jean and Yulin Kuang share tips and strategies for how they successfully write in different genres and mediums.
The post How to Write in Different Genres appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/how-to-write-in-different-genres#Genre #WriteBetterFiction #genre #genrefiction #GenreWriting
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Literary Tropes Are Like French Fries by Laurel Osterkamp
Laurel Osterkamp wants you to know that literary tropes are like french fries, a good treat that can be used to add flavor to a story.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/04/18/literary-tropes-are-like-french-fries-by-laurel-osterkamp#WritingTips #dystopiansociety #genre #genrefiction #humor
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Literary Tropes Are Like French Fries by Laurel Osterkamp
Laurel Osterkamp wants you to know that literary tropes are like french fries, a good treat that can be used to add flavor to a story.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/04/18/literary-tropes-are-like-french-fries-by-laurel-osterkamp#WritingTips #dystopiansociety #genre #genrefiction #humor
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Review: "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey -
Grey's classic Western lives up to its reputation of trope-filled storytelling while also surprising in lush scenery, realistic and tense action, and unexpected resolutions.
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #zanegrey #ridersofthepurplesage #western #fiction #classic #americanwest #genrefiction
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How to Write Funny: Essential Humor Writing Tips for Authors
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https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/how-to-write-funny#WritingYourBook #Inspiration #WritingandEditing #Genrefiction
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Had a great time yesterday talking #solarpunk with @pkmutch and her brilliant class of entrepreneurs at #OCAD ... over video of course. Had a great time discussing the valences of #Utopia, trends in #ScienceFiction (#CanadianScienceFiction specifically) plus #IndigenousFuturism and #Afrofuturism
#AcademicTalk #PublicIntellectual #Humanities #PublicSpeaking #SF #SciFi #GenreFiction #ClassTalk #EnglishLiterature
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YOUR OPINION: Which cover do you prefer?
What if the US biolab at Fort Detrick was compromised and the key to fighting the pandemic fell into the hands of a sinister cartel ... if the Black Death re-emerged from the thaw...
My novel Terminal Warfare: Lady, Scientist, Lover, Spy is homage to John Le Carre.
#books #bookstodon #thriller #mystery #espionage #spythriller #pandemicthriller #dystopian #strongfemale #mythicwoman #genrefiction #literaryfiction
https://www.amazon.com/Terminal-Warfare-Scientist-Lover-Anthropocene-ebook/dp/B0CKQGTBCC