I've been querying my pirate novel The Brotherhood of the Black Flag for a bit, marketing it as historical adventure fiction, and I'm wondering if historical thriller isn't a better label. It's about a pirate pretending to turn pirate hunter as part of a Jacobite plot to do away with King George I and clear the throne for the restoration of the Stuarts.
I'm going for an Errol Flynn movie tone as opposed to, say, Robert Ludlam, but with this kind of story, can this reasonably be pitched as a thriller as opposed to adventure fiction? (It's not YA.)
I'm going for an Errol Flynn movie tone as opposed to, say, Robert Ludlam, but with this kind of story, can this reasonably be pitched as a thriller as opposed to adventure fiction? (It's not YA.)