SFFMP 73: Mixing Genres, Best Categories for Cross-Genre Fiction, and KDP Select vs. Going Wide with Glynn Stewart
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This week we are joined with Glynn Stewart, author of fantastic and successful novels that mix science fiction and fantasy.
Here’s a taste of what we discussed:
- Mixing genres and tropes.
- How to make fantasy and science fiction blend together to make a strong story.
- How to create a strong fantasy with various rules.
- To explain the rules of your magic system to readers, or not?
- Judging concepts by the marketability and knowing where to put your focus.
- Advice to those who would want to mix genres.
- Ways to conquer writer’s block.
- Using Kindle Unlimited and pricing.
- Places to market cross genres.
- Designing stand-alones to grow into series–And working with fans who want more!
- The need for endurance.
If you enjoyed the show, please visit Glynn on his site and check out his several series there and on his Amazon page.
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Have to agree with Glynn on the financial value of KDP Select. Pagereads are consistently 35% to 50% of my revenue, and I have yet to demonstrate an ability to do that well by going wide. I get the eggs-in-one-basket argument, but as it stands I can get out whenever I want, so I’m staying in until other distributors can show me to a competitive audience.
I know that not all readers have or want a Kindle. Before I had one, I was disappointed if a book was only available on Kindle. It is easier now that we can read Kindle books in a web browser on a computer, but I still prefer to read a book on an ebook reader, not caring which one. I make my ebooks available widely, so that no one is missed out because they don’t have the right device. I would rather have it that way than being exclusive to Amazon. But I can see that for some books, Kindle only can bea better earner. What we really need is Amazon to not stop ebooks being published elsewhere if on Kindle Unlimited.
That would definitely be ideal, David!