I've been struggling with nailing down a genre longer than I'd care to admit. I began writing the story with no particular genre in mind, which makes this task even more difficult for me.
My MS gives the illusion of time travel (it's revealed near the end that time travel didn't actually occur, but it did spark a medical miracle), which spurs problem #1. I'm not sure if that would still make it science fiction, although there's nothing else in the MS that falls w/in that genre (unless you'd count the MC being a scientist). Then, it's mostly a love story. Like in Romance, the story revolves around a relationship and it contains a HFN; however, the relationship isn't the goal from the beginning and the MC "time travels" for one relationship (w/ his deceased wife) but ends up in another (w/ the heroine, his true love). There's also no "meeting by chapter 2/3" or true alternating POV structure. Romance is such a strict genre that I fear Romance readers may be a bit disappointed. The MS also touches on mending broken relationships (friendship and familial).
I've gone from calling it romantic SF, SF Romance, commercial, mainstream, WF and book club fiction (b/c of some of the issues and decisions the heroine faces). I'm not sure where my MS would fall, and I worry that I may be querying the wrong agents. Help!
My MS gives the illusion of time travel (it's revealed near the end that time travel didn't actually occur, but it did spark a medical miracle), which spurs problem #1. I'm not sure if that would still make it science fiction, although there's nothing else in the MS that falls w/in that genre (unless you'd count the MC being a scientist). Then, it's mostly a love story. Like in Romance, the story revolves around a relationship and it contains a HFN; however, the relationship isn't the goal from the beginning and the MC "time travels" for one relationship (w/ his deceased wife) but ends up in another (w/ the heroine, his true love). There's also no "meeting by chapter 2/3" or true alternating POV structure. Romance is such a strict genre that I fear Romance readers may be a bit disappointed. The MS also touches on mending broken relationships (friendship and familial).
I've gone from calling it romantic SF, SF Romance, commercial, mainstream, WF and book club fiction (b/c of some of the issues and decisions the heroine faces). I'm not sure where my MS would fall, and I worry that I may be querying the wrong agents. Help!
