Is it ever helpful to go granular into the subgenre, or is that limiting the audience venn diagram? Like could I call a story steampunk/dieselpunk/silkpunk or just say it's fantasy and risk people saying, 'I was expecting knights and dragons but instead got airships and clockwork men'? Asking for a friend...
I think it's ok to put in a query that your fantasy book is steampunk, because that's descriptive and you want to be descriptive in a query. But the more adjectives you add, the less helpful it is. One or two is ok. 7 is not helpful.
Is it ever helpful to go granular into the subgenre, or is that limiting the audience venn diagram? Like could I call a story steampunk/dieselpunk/silkpunk or just say it's fantasy and risk people saying, 'I was expecting knights and dragons but instead got airships and clockwork men'? Asking for a friend...
I think it's ok to put in a query that your fantasy book is steampunk, because that's descriptive and you want to be descriptive in a query. But the more adjectives you add, the less helpful it is. One or two is ok. 7 is not helpful.
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Hi Jessie!