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Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful. --Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them. --Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace

Genre Worlds is of potential interest to scholars and students in a wide variety of academic disciplines, including but not limited to: English Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Communication, Book History, Australian Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology. The book should also appeal to genre fiction fans who wish to learn about the people behind the books they love. Highly recommended. --Publishing Research Quarterly Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful. --Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them. --Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful. --Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them. --Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace

"""Genre Worlds is of potential interest to scholars and students in a wide variety of academic disciplines, including but not limited to: English Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Communication, Book History, Australian Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology. The book should also appeal to genre fiction fans who wish to learn about the people behind the books they love. Highly recommended.""--Publishing Research Quarterly ""Genre Worlds is a fast-paced, engaging, and insightfulexamination of genre fiction and its wide-ranging influences . . . Highly recommended.""--CHOICE ""Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful.""--Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities ""Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them.""--Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace ""Genre Worlds is of potential interest to scholars and students in a wide variety of academic disciplines, including but not limited to: English Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Communication, Book History, Australian Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology. The book should also appeal to genre fiction fans who wish to learn about the people behind the books they love. Highly recommended.""--Publishing Research Quarterly ""Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful.""--Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities ""Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them.""--Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace"

"""Fiction writers looking for an in-depth discussion of the genre worlds they work in, creative writing teachers who want to give their classes an understanding of the world of writing beyond the pen and paper, and scholars of genre fiction itself who are interested in what goes on behind the scenes will benefit from the compelling exploration found within Genre Worlds."" --The Journal of Popular Culture ""Genre Worlds is of potential interest to scholars and students in a wide variety of academic disciplines, including but not limited to: English Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Communication, Book History, Australian Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology. The book should also appeal to genre fiction fans who wish to learn about the people behind the books they love. Highly recommended.""--Publishing Research Quarterly ""Genre Worlds is a fast-paced, engaging, and insightfulexamination of genre fiction and its wide-ranging influences . . . Highly recommended.""--CHOICE ""Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful.""--Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities ""Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them.""--Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace ""Genre Worlds is of potential interest to scholars and students in a wide variety of academic disciplines, including but not limited to: English Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Communication, Book History, Australian Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology. The book should also appeal to genre fiction fans who wish to learn about the people behind the books they love. Highly recommended.""--Publishing Research Quarterly ""Genre Worlds brings together traditional literary readings with audience studies and book publishing research in a really crucial way. Readers and fans of various genres will find the book interesting and useful.""--Kristina Busse, author of Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities ""Genre Worlds's literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches leverage insider views based on interviews with writers, editors, agents, and other participants in the production of genre fiction. It offers an illuminating picture of how genre worlds work and the numerous participants in them.""--Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace"

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KIM WILKINS is professor of writing, publishing, and twenty-first-century book culture at the University of Queensland. BETH DRISCOLL is associate professor of publishing, communications, and arts management at the University of Melbourne. LISA FLETCHER is head of the School of Humanities and professor of English at the University of Tasmania.

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