How the hell do you explain a book?

Maybe not the most elegant title for a post, but something I have been thinking about... a lot. One of the issues the Big 6 publishers had with Correction Line (as forwarded to me by the agent for the novel) was that it couldn't be easily placed in a genre. It was too literary to really be a suspense thriller, but it had too many suspense type elements to really be a literary book. (And no one seemed to be buying literary books anyway).

Oh, and then there is the whole supernatural thing.

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