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gmw · 07-15-2015, 01:50 AM

The next short story I want to publish is written as a series of interviews about a piece of music where the creator has died and everyone is claiming the rights should belong to them.

What I can't work out is how to categorise this story in the available Smashwords genres.

I am tempted by Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, because there is a (quite minor) legal aspect to it, but that's not really what it's about, and it's probably not what people are expecting under that heading.

The only other category sufficiently generic would seem to be Fiction » Literature » Literary, but I've never really seen myself as a writer of "literary" fiction. The story is intended to be amusing (though not in an overtly comic sense), but it isn't really intended to astound anyone with the quality of my prose (which is how I generally think of "literary" fiction).

Any suggestions?

07-15-2015, 01:50 AM	#1
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	What genre should I use? The next short story I want to publish is written as a series of interviews about a piece of music where the creator has died and everyone is claiming the rights should belong to them. What I can't work out is how to categorise this story in the available Smashwords genres. I am tempted by Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal, because there is a (quite minor) legal aspect to it, but that's not really what it's about, and it's probably not what people are expecting under that heading. The only other category sufficiently generic would seem to be Fiction » Literature » Literary, but I've never really seen myself as a writer of "literary" fiction. The story is intended to be amusing (though not in an overtly comic sense), but it isn't really intended to astound anyone with the quality of my prose (which is how I generally think of "literary" fiction). Any suggestions?