My favorite novel of all time, The Book of Strange New Things, is my favorite because it combines two aspects of literature that I've never seen combined before: sci-fi worldbuilding and understated emotional drama. It's non-classifiable using our current genre system. Unfortunately for me, I love both of those things - speculative fiction AND literary fiction. But I rarely see them done well together.
I have to imagine you and I aren't the only ones who like the liminal space between established corridors of genre. In fact, my work-in-progress novel is designed to be that exact sort of thing. A crossover book. The only real question is if any publisher will like it well enough to sell it.
I think I'm a bit like you in terms of writing and niches. While you will most definitely find something fantasy or sci-fi in my stories, they don't always stay in the same niche. I see my readers as people who aren't too fussed about genre as long as there's something not of this world within the pages.
In Which I Try to Find My Niche
My favorite novel of all time, The Book of Strange New Things, is my favorite because it combines two aspects of literature that I've never seen combined before: sci-fi worldbuilding and understated emotional drama. It's non-classifiable using our current genre system. Unfortunately for me, I love both of those things - speculative fiction AND literary fiction. But I rarely see them done well together.
I have to imagine you and I aren't the only ones who like the liminal space between established corridors of genre. In fact, my work-in-progress novel is designed to be that exact sort of thing. A crossover book. The only real question is if any publisher will like it well enough to sell it.
I think I'm a bit like you in terms of writing and niches. While you will most definitely find something fantasy or sci-fi in my stories, they don't always stay in the same niche. I see my readers as people who aren't too fussed about genre as long as there's something not of this world within the pages.