Useful advice for writers on this site. Lots of helpful tips.
This post is the forty-sixth in a series about writing a novel. You can check out the list of past topics at the end of this post.
When putting your e-book online, you will need to pick a genre/category and keywords to help categorize and market your novel.
Genre/Categories
Every book is categorized by its genre to help readers locate the type of book they enjoy reading. Mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, suspense and western are just a few examples of fiction genres.
And then there are subcategories of genres such as epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, dark fantasy, paranormal and more. It will help you to know your subgenre to pick the category you want your novel to appear under.
Categories
On Amazon, you can initially pick two categories for your book. You should be as specific as possible.
- Don’t just say fiction > Fantasy. Go deeper. Fiction >…
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Author & Editor Cynthia Hilston 