Genre labelling · Marlowe and Christie Writers

Genre labelling

Hi all. Thanks for suggestions helping me with my MG Historical issue. I even considered ageing my MC up to YA, but I didn't want to. However, I've just realised that my historical novel is actually a literary novel, set in historical times. I have always ignored the MG Literary tag, but actually my taste in MG has been shaped by 23 years of teaching English and History to 6-13 yr olds. It turns out that when I write something that is the same style as a book I would use to teach with, that makes it literary! 🤣 So now I'm remarketing it as MG Literary, set in 1915. Hopefully more agents will be interested in MG Literary then MG Historical, particularly when it really is literary. Has anyone else had to re-genre their manuscript?

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