Shewanda Pugh's Blog: The Wandering Mind of a Romance Writer - Posts Tagged "genre-overlapping"

After my tedious diatribe about the pigeon holing of romance novels, I did a little research. And by research I mean going to Amazon.com and keying in literary romance. (Don't snap at me; that DOES count.) Anyway, after a fair amount of research, say 45 to 60 seconds, I realized the subgenre of serious literary romance does exist. Perhaps it's this subgenre that allows for escape from the rigid structure of traditional romance. I'm not talking about mere semantics here; after all, if your romance reads like a menage trois on steroids, then I dare say it belongs elsewhere. But I digress, so, back to the subject of literary romance.
Apparently, among the criteria for acceptance into this illustrious field is the death of said author. Think Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, anything yesteryear.
So, barring my premature demise, I'll have to look elsewhere for categorical inclusion. For now, we'll call it a crisis of classification.