 This post originally appeared in Deborah’s blog and is used here with permission. Read on to see how Dorian Gray is similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and about horror tropes and conventions.
Writing The Midnight Files [formerly on Kindle Vella, currently unpublished] has had some interesting effects on the way I view stories.
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 Thinklings Books is a publisher of speculative fiction. You may have heard the term (often shortened to “spec fic”) and wondered exactly what it meant. Today we’re not just going to speculate on what it is; we’re going to provide concrete answers!
When you speculate, you ask “What if?” But all fiction books pose that question in one way or another; it’s what makes them fictional. So whether something is spec fic or not depends on what, where, whom, etc., a book is speculating about.  Jeannie here. This post first appeared in my literary consultant blog.
You might have grown up thinking that there are about fifty genres of books, but really, there are three. We’ll call the rest of the genres, like sci-fi and mystery, sub-genres. So what are the three types? Well, there's 1) fiction (duh); 2) nonfiction (also, duh); and 3) creative nonfiction (uh, what's this?). |
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