WHEN NO ONE KNOWS YOUR GENRE.

But "If you think your book is women's fiction but the agent is looking for upmarket fiction, then you need to explain to them why [your] book is upmarket fiction." On a larger level, women's fiction titles oft en fall into the category of commercial fiction, genre fiction, or just general fiction. These titles may be classified as book-club fiction, upmarket fiction, uplit, light literary fiction, and a wide variety of other terms. Author Tif Marcelo, whose bestselling novels oft en straddle the line between romance and women's fiction, embraces the term, but admits, "When I'm talking about women's fiction to everybody else in the world, they're not understanding what that means. [Extracted from the article]

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