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		<title>Fantasy Versus Women&#8217;s Fiction Versus Romance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Draven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not very skilled at categorizing genre fiction, and this weakness helped account for several failures on my journey to publication. I'm getting better at it now. I understand what makes something speculative fiction--but spec fic is showing up everywhere these days, threading its way through science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, romance, and even women's fiction and historicals.

Now, for me, romance is easy to understand as a genre. The rules are clear and established. The focus must be on the relationship between the protagonist and his or her lover. It must have a happy ending. For Nocturne, I write romances with dark paranormal twists. So I even know how to complicate romance.

But women's fiction? I apparently write it too, and I'm going to need to learn how to speak intelligently about it, but I'm still groping for a good definition. Agent Scott Eagan tries to explain it in <a href="http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Agent+Scott+Eagan+On+Romance+Vs+Womens+Fiction.aspx">this article</a>, and I found it interesting and enlightening. Anybody else wanna help me out with their understanding of the genre?]]></description>
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