Crossing Genre Lines: Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour3

I often hear
things like 'genre is just a tool made up by marketing people.'




Yes, that's
true.  That does not make it bad,
though.  Imagine going into a store and
wanting a new fantasy novel, only you have to search through every single shelf
of fiction to find one.  Or worse,
searching through places like Amazon.com, book-by-book.   So let's start by saying that genre
distinctions are a