Time to Get Into Genre Shape

RA for All is going on vacation beginning tomorrow and returning on Monday September 8th.

But don't fear, I have plenty for you to do while I am gone.

In my genre overview program, I get you up to speed on the major genres as they stand right now. I up date it every year around February. 

You can click here to get a great overview of where each genre is at this moment. The authors, books, and trends you need to know about.

But also, in that presentation, I say multiple times that genres are not stagnant and that you need to work to stay up to date in how they are shifting and changing.

And the best way to go that is to use my slides and the link to my free genre resources worksheet. You can go through them, genre by genre, and get yourself in genre shape.

While I am gone, pick a few genres, the ones you are the least well versed in, and take a deep dive. Spend time looking into award winners, spend time on some of the genre's most popular sites, listen to genre specific podcasts, etc....

Then, if you want to take the next step, you can pull a few books that came out in the last 2-5 years that you missed and spend some time with them. You don't have to read them if you don't want to. You can look them up on NoveList and/or Goodreads to see what others think. Or, read the beginning few chapters, some middle chapters, and then the last few chapters to get a sense of the appeal and writing style.

The point here is, I won't be here every day with something to focus you on your service to readers, but I am here now with a longer term project, one that will help you to help even more readers. All you have to do is spend a few minutes each day that I am not posting on a genre or two.

I'll be back on 9/8 with lots of reviews to post that week-- a bunch from upcoming books in Booklist and a few of the backlist books I am hoping to read for fun while I am on vacation.

Stay safe and make good choices. I'll see you soon.