![]() While a whole bookstore with 100,000, 200,000 books is not gonna be helpful, you are looking to really zero in on a specific bucket. So, maybe, let's say you're going to France, and you are looking for a book, like a Lonely Planet guide to France. You know, in these COVID times, it's a little dicey to think about travel but we will travel again one day. If you are looking for travel books, let's say. All of these books sort of like to belong in a specific place because that is how we've developed a system for getting them to readers, you know. We have books that fit into various categories because when you think about being at Barnes & Noble or, you know, at Amazon and seeing the online categories or the in-person categories, how books are shelved in a bookstore, which is where they are able to connect to readers, we see the thriller shelf. But when we get into adult publishing, meaning non-children, there are buckets as well. In children's books, there are several buckets that you need to fit into, with word count guidelines and all of that. What would unconventional writing mean? I'm thinking “Infinite Jest,” I'm thinking all of these books that sort of don't fit necessarily-like a Murakami-like, they don't fit a very neat category or a neat bucket that publishing wants to put them into. ![]() We are going to discuss unconventional writing in this video. Hello, this is Mary Kole with Good Story Company. ![]()
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