Genre and non-genre, or whatever happened to mainstream?

It’s not so much that I’m obsessed by genre as that it just keeps cropping up and this week I ended up checking out this blog post from Savvy Writers which links to otherslisting possible genres and sub-categories for fiction. Skimming through them I had a bit of a bolt from the blue, because nestling in among Romance, Horror and Crime in all its guises I happened on something I haven’t seem mentioned for a while.

Mainstream.

You see back in the day, when I was first sending out to agents and p...