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Title: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: tonyu on December 05, 2018, 07:35:34 AM
Last year BookBub said crime/serial killer thrillers would be big in 2018 and they sure were right. Anyone hear of trends for 2019?
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Post-Doctorate D on December 05, 2018, 08:10:17 AM
The trends will likely be any genre I'm not writing in.  :confused:
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Maggie Ann on December 05, 2018, 09:46:16 AM
The trends will likely be any genre I'm not writing in.  :confused:

You can knock mine out also. That's two genres down.  :tap
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Feliz on December 13, 2018, 10:08:51 AM
I often struggle with writing trends, since I do my own thing. That said, I'm curious about the trends for the coming year.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: cmstafford on December 19, 2018, 01:54:43 AM
I haven't heard of any trends yet for next year, but I'm hoping people will still read cozies, because I'm going all in (and it's a little bit terrifying).
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Jack Krenneck on December 19, 2018, 09:59:57 AM
Reverse dragon harems.

You may think I'm joking...
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: idontknowyet on December 19, 2018, 10:05:53 AM
Reverse Harem anything!!!! They are everywhere!  :icon_think:  Reverse Harem seriously needs its own subgenre somewhere. 
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: notthatamanda on December 19, 2018, 11:05:44 AM
Reverse Harem anything!!!! They are everywhere!  :icon_think:  Reverse Harem seriously needs its own subgenre somewhere.

I asked Bookbub a while ago to do that, get Reverse Harem out of New Adult.  Maybe if enough of us ask?
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: lyndabelle on December 23, 2018, 06:03:08 AM
Often, I just ignore the trends and just write what I feel like. Since I'm doing shorts, I sometimes get a trend right. :banana:
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Post-Doctorate D on December 28, 2018, 09:48:07 AM
A year from now, we'll know with some degree of certainty.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Tom Wood on December 28, 2018, 09:57:53 AM
Don't tell anyone, but I've heard that planetary destruction that involves squids, flying saucers and butter is the next big thing. Mum's the word!

(https://agentsofdisrupt.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/mumstheword.gif)
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: OfficialEthanJ on December 29, 2018, 12:11:37 AM
 :dizzy:

Ummm... reverse harem? Is that where a concubine has a barn full of sultans?
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: LilyBLily on December 29, 2018, 12:24:24 AM
I'd call her the sultana--but that's a term commonly used for raisins.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: EllieL on December 29, 2018, 12:44:28 AM
Mmmm raisins.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Post-Doctorate D on December 29, 2018, 03:25:33 AM
I'd call her the sultana--but that's a term commonly used for raisins.

Well, since those sort of books like double-entendres . . .

The Chocolate-Covered Sultana

Maybe it can be a reverse-harem murder mystery.  The cover can have a chocolate-covered raisin but the chocolate is all melty and as it runs down the cover it turns into dark red blood.

Also, the sultana rides a llama rather than a camel, except on Wednesdays.

And there's a kangaroo with a bad hip.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: notthatamanda on December 29, 2018, 03:55:13 AM
Also, the sultana rides a llama rather than a camel, except on Wednesdays.



Regular llama or earless llama?  There could be a good subplot if the sultana enlists her harem to bring down the llama ear removing gang.   Just a suggestion. 
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: catowned on December 29, 2018, 05:04:24 AM
Llama ear removing gang?! (gasp)

Mixing subcategories is often a yes. Reverse harem / eco fiction. Would it sell?
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Lorri Moulton on January 02, 2019, 04:05:56 AM
I'm just going to choose something wild...and say mixing genres.  Books that don't fit neatly into a particular category, but can be promoted in several.  Only time will tell. 
 :catrun
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Gerri Attrick on January 02, 2019, 04:11:11 AM
I’d call her the sultana–but that’s a term commonly used for raisins.

Well, since those sort of books like double-entendres . . .

The Chocolate-Covered Sultana

Maybe it can be a reverse-harem murder mystery.  The cover can have a chocolate-covered raisin but the chocolate is all melty and as it runs down the cover it turns into dark red blood.

Also, the sultana rides a llama rather than a camel, except on Wednesdays.

And there’s a kangaroo with a bad hip.

I’m taking pain killers (damaged my back). What’s your excuse?   Grin
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: ragdoll on January 06, 2019, 01:20:30 PM
I am actually writing a reverse harem with dragon shifters next month before I start on my serial killer book (I hope they are still going strong in 2019).
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: angela on January 07, 2019, 01:38:55 AM
Not a prediction, but I hope to see some new trends that nobody expected. I would get a kick out of that.

It would be funny if one of the fiction factories created a trend artificially that eventually caught on with real readers.  (cough cough, again)
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: ragdoll on January 07, 2019, 02:59:28 AM
Not a prediction, but I hope to see some new trends that nobody expected. ...

I would like to see Science Future make a strong showing. Neuromancer was written in 1984. I, Robot between 1940 and 1950 in separate installments/shorts originally. Children of Men in 1982 by a woman far more famous for her Dalgliesh detective novels. Very real parts of the future are almost upon us and SF still doesn't seem to be dealing with it much (or not getting noticed more broadly when it does).
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: GFXJames on January 07, 2019, 06:55:00 AM
Not a prediction, but I hope to see some new trends that nobody expected. ...

I would like to see Science Future make a strong showing. Neuromancer was written in 1984. I, Robot between 1940 and 1950 in separate installments/shorts originally. Children of Men in 1982 by a woman far more famous for her Dalgliesh detective novels. Very real parts of the future are almost upon us and SF still doesn't seem to be dealing with it much (or not getting noticed more broadly when it does).

Would it need a lot of scientific documentation? (Asimov (specially I Robot, Foundation trilogy, Lucky Starr short tales...), who I was super fan of in my teenage/early twenties, had a huge advantage over other people. Or didn't he?) . I mean, I like reading that kind of books. (But I do know nothing about genres and all these new terms, I get lost with the new categories, even in Spanish...) And very particularly drawing/writing sci-fi/futuristic comics -planning to create one along 2019, not sure yet, though-, where you have to graphically, visually get into detail.... I believe they require very solid research. I might be wrong, though.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Tom Wood on January 07, 2019, 06:59:10 AM
... Would it need a lot of scientific documentation? ...

I hope not! I use a lot of handwavium. "The artificial intelligence programmed the nanotech, the mutants, the cyborgs and the robots to behave that way. Just roll with it!"  :hehe
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: GFXJames on January 07, 2019, 07:01:08 AM
... Would it need a lot of scientific documentation? ...

I hope not! I use a lot of handwavium. "The artificial intelligence programmed the nanotech, the mutants, the cyborgs and the robots to behave that way. Just roll with it!"  :hehe

LOL  :roll:
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: ragdoll on January 07, 2019, 07:15:58 AM
LOL at Tom, but also I agree that you don't have to go deep into the weeds. I wrote a short on the Singularity/Transcendence nearly a decade ago. Not a word about how it's done. It's about the impact on humans "now" that it exists. For nanotechnology, I think of Arthur C Clarke's Third Law - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. No need to go into the weeds on that, either.

In the next few decades, this *s* is going to get real. People will be going to South America or Switzerland to get implants that make them better than other people at solving a variety of problems or dealing with massive amounts of data without an external computer. How does someone who is smart, but far too poor for the enhancements, compete? The movie Elysium touched on this. Consider if the rich have nanites in their cells that can not only erase the pollution they breathe in, but use the carbon dioxide to further populate the body with more nanites? Do the rich then care as much about air quality as the poor do? Still don't need to explain nanites--leave that for the scientists :D Read science for ideas, though.

ETA - and I'm sorry because we/I have gone far afield of the topic, but I also blame it in part on Angela :D <3
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: Tom Wood on January 07, 2019, 07:29:09 AM
The singularity is a particularly useful concept when you don't want to explain anything technical. I'm setting my stories just this side of the singularity so I can reach across and borrow from the other side of the veil. That way, all our current human foibles and concerns are still valid, but I can gloss over the technical details by having an AI involved.
Title: Re: Any genre trends for 2019?
Post by: GFXJames on January 07, 2019, 08:49:25 AM
Yep, my bad too if it's a bit OT (but thank you ragdoll and Tom, as is something I'm really curious about, needing to face it soon for the comic)