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[CatrionaGrace]

You mean Song of the Bluebottle Tree? Sure, you've got some rabid "Christian" heretics in there, but that doesn't mean . . .

Yikes, could bots be crawling our books and mindlessly assigning them to categories we didn't choose, ourselves?

You didn't find it to be a sweet Christian romance with moments of suspense?

Just for the record, I don't recall being asked how to categorize my book by the publishing company or marketing folks. It gets tucked under a lot of different categories, which is usually fine with me, but Christian mystery and romance made me laugh out loud. Okay, Hoot. Hoot out loud and even say a word or two generally disapproved of by polite company.

 

[Set2Stun]

I do wonder how that all works. I only ever see three subcategories for mine. Currently they are:

• Computer & Internet Humour
• Humorous Science Fiction (Books)
• Satire

This seems to have changed recently. "Love, Sex, & Marriage Humour" was always a category (which didn't quite fit). Being replaced by "Humorous Science Fiction (Books)" makes a lot more sense.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

You didn't find it to be a sweet Christian romance with moments of suspense?

Just for the record, I don't recall being asked how to categorize my book by the publishing company or marketing folks. It gets tucked under a lot of different categories, which is usually fine with me, but Christian mystery and romance made me laugh out loud. Okay, Hoot. Hoot out loud and even say a word or two generally disapproved of by polite company.

The joke is, that's a category where my novel belongs. But I'm too lazy at the moment to go check if it's there and what its ranking is. Lower than yours, I imagine.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Lower than yours, I imagine.

I doubt my book will rock the Christian mystery and romance department for long. It's all yours, sister.

 

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