If you’ve ever stood in front of a blank “select category” dropdown on Amazon KDP, wondering whether your book is a “romantic suspense” or just a “mystery with kissing,” you already know the genre isn’t as simple as it sounds. Choosing the right book genre is one of the first real decisions an author has to make and it shapes a lot more than most people expect.
Genre tells the reader what sort of experience they are signing up for. It tells you, the author, who you’re writing for and how to shape the story. From romance and mystery to memoir and self-help, books fall into broad genres that keep splitting into more specific subgenres and a lot of the best books these days don’t sit neatly in just one box.
What Is a Book Genre?
At its simplest, a genre is just a way of grouping books that share something in common: a subject, a tone, a structure, or a set of reader expectations. Romance readers show up expecting an emotional payoff. Mystery readers show up expecting a puzzle they can try to solve alongside the detective. Genre is the shorthand that tells them which one they’re getting.
Here’s the thing, though: there’s no official master list handed down from on high. Publishers, bookstores, libraries, and retailers all slice things up a little differently, and genres shift as new trends catch on. What mattered five years ago (hello, dystopian YA) isn’t necessarily what’s selling now.
Why Do Book Genres Matter?
Beyond helping readers browse, genre answers a handful of practical questions every author eventually has to face.
Who Is the Book Written For?
Genre narrows down who’s actually going to pick your book up which, in turn, shapes your tone, your subject matter, and the promises your cover and blurb end up making.
What Does the Target Reader Expect?
Every genre comes with baggage, in a good way. Mystery readers want the puzzle solved. Romance readers want the emotional arc to land. Genre tells you which expectations you’re on the hook for.
Which Books Are Comparable?
Once you know your genre, you can actually go find books like yours which makes market research something you can do, instead of a vague idea you keep meaning to get to.
What Tone and Structure Fit?
Genre conventions often hand you a rough shape for pacing and voice. You don’t have to follow it exactly, but it’s a lot easier to break the rules on purpose than to stumble into breaking them by accident.
Which Categories Might Fit?
Genre is the foundation everything else gets built on including the retailer categories that determine whether readers ever see your book in the first place.
How Should the Cover and Description Be Positioned?
Genre gives you a starting point for what your cover and description need to signal, so a browsing reader knows what they’re looking at within a couple of seconds.
None of this means you have to follow every convention to the letter. It just means you’re making informed choices instead of guessing.
How Many Book Genres Are There?
Honestly? Nobody knows, and anyone who gives you a specific number is probably rounding. Fiction and nonfiction each branch into dozens of genres, which branch into subgenres, which branch into micro-trends that pop up on BookTok every few months.
You can watch it happen in real time:
Fiction → Fantasy → Romantic Fantasy → specific tropes within that
Or on the nonfiction side:
Nonfiction → Business → Entrepreneurship → Startup Strategy
The list keeps growing because books keep combining genres, audiences, and styles in new ways. Trying to memorize every possible genre is a losing game. What actually matters is finding the classification that honestly describes your book and gets it in front of readers who’ll want it.
Genre vs. Subgenre vs. Trope
These three words get used almost interchangeably, but they’re doing different jobs.
What Is a Genre?
A genre is the big, broad category the primary type of experience or subject a book delivers. A handful of these anchor most of publishing.
Romance
Built around a relationship and its emotional arc. The romance is the engine driving the plot forward, not a subplot.
Mystery
Based on a crime or an unanswered question, the story builds up to an answer in the end.
Fantasy
Take place in a world where magic, ghosts, or other things that just don’t exist in the real world exist. In this world, the story and the setting are all tied together.
Science Fiction
Explores speculative ideas around science, technology, and where things might be headed.
Biography
A nonfiction genre telling the true story of someone’s life, usually written by someone other than the subject.
Self-Help
Nonfiction aimed at practical guidance helping readers change something about their lives.
History
Nonfiction that digs into real events, people, and periods, built on research and evidence rather than narrative invention.
What Is a Subgenre?
A subgenre takes one of those broad genres and gets specific, which matters a lot when you’re trying to reach readers who know exactly what they want.
Mystery to Cozy Mystery
Cozy mystery takes the broader genre and dials down the violence, usually swapping in an amateur sleuth and a lighter tone.
Fantasy to Epic Fantasy
Epic fantasy involves big sprawling world-building, stakes that threaten entire kingdoms or worlds.
Romance to Historical Romance
Historical romance drops the genre’s usual beats into a specific historical period, with all the period detail that implies.
Science Fiction to Dystopian Fiction
Dystopian fiction imagines a troubled or oppressive future society, think less “flying cars,” more “who’s actually in control here.”
What Is a Trope?
There is no such thing as a trope in fiction. A trope is a recurring theme that can appear in a wide range of fiction forms.
Enemies to Lovers
Two characters start out as adversaries and end up falling for each other over the course of the story.
Found Family
Characters who aren’t related by blood build a bond that functions like family anyway.
Chosen One
One character is somehow uniquely positioned or destined to be the one who resolves the central conflict.
Second Chance Romance
Former couples get back together and try to put back together what came apart the first time.
Secret Identity
A character is hiding who they really are from the people around them.
Locked-Room Mystery
The crime happens somewhere sealed off or restricted, which narrows down the suspect list fast.
Genre vs. Age Category vs. Book Format
Here’s a mix-up that trips up a lot of first-time authors: genre, age category, and format are not the same thing, even though people talk about them like they are.
Classification Examples Genre Romance, mystery, fantasy Subgenre Cozy mystery, dark fantasy Age category Children’s, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult Format eBook, audiobook, graphic novel Physical format Paperback, hardcover
Take a Young Adult fantasy novel in paperback, for example. Fantasy is the genre. Young Adult is the age category. Paperback is the format. All three are true at once, and none of them cancel the others out.
Getting this distinction right matters more than it might seem, especially once you’re filling out metadata fields for retailers and distributors, where mixing these up can genuinely hurt your book’s discoverability.
Fiction Book Genres
Fiction is invented storytelling though “invented” doesn’t mean it can’t draw on real people, places, and events. It just means the author has creative license. Fiction splits into a wide range of genres, and plenty of books borrow from more than one.
Romance
Romance is built around a relationship and the emotional journey the characters go through together. Readers come in with real expectations about how that relationship develops and how it resolves, skip the emotional payoff, and you’ll hear about it in the reviews.
Contemporary Romance
Set in the present day, focused on modern relationships and the stakes that come with them.
Historical Romance
Set in a specific historical period, blending period detail with the usual romance beats.
Romantic Comedy
The lighter, funnier end of romance banter and playful tension carry a lot of the weight.
Paranormal Romance
Romance with supernatural elements mixed in vampires, shifters, magic, take your pick.
Romantic Fantasy
A fully built fantasy world with a central romance driving the plot alongside it.
Romantic Suspense
Romance layered with danger or mystery-level stakes running in parallel with the relationship.
Mystery
Mystery revolves around an unanswered question, a crime, or a hidden truth the story slowly uncovers. Cozy mystery, historical mystery, psychological mystery they’re all variations on the same basic engine.
Investigation
The process of gathering information to get closer to the truth.
Clues
The details scattered through the story that readers can use to try to solve it themselves.
Suspects
People in a story who keep readers wondering and who could be held responsible.
Secrets
The more that is kept secret, the more exciting the story and the more difficult the inquiry.
Reveals
Those times when you finally notice something important.
Resolution
The payout when it all comes together into an answer that (hopefully) satisfies.
Thriller
Thrillers run on tension, danger, and stakes that keep climbing. A good thriller description has to communicate the threat without giving away how it ends.
Psychological Thriller
Tension that lives in the mind manipulation, unreliable perception, that creeping sense of something’s off.
Legal Thriller
In courtrooms and court proceedings, with suspense building to the result of a case.
Political Thriller
Power conflicts, conspiracies are going on inside the political structures.
Domestic Thriller
The danger comes from close to home sometimes from someone the protagonist trusts.
Medical Thriller
High stakes of medicine, hospitals, or public health.
Tech Thriller
Danger rooted in technology, cybersecurity, or where emerging science could go wrong.
Fantasy
Fantasy leans on magic, the supernatural, or elements that simply couldn’t exist in our world. Good fantasy needs solid world-building; readers have to understand the rules of the world before they can care about what’s at stake in it.
Epic Fantasy
Big canvas, big stakes, think entire kingdoms or worlds hanging in the balance.
High Fantasy
Set entirely in an invented world, with no real-world tether at all.
Urban Fantasy
Magic dropped into a modern, real-world city setting.
Dark Fantasy
Fantasy elements with a horror-adjacent tone dread, moral gray areas, and all.
Cozy Fantasy
Lower stakes, more comfort, community and warmth over epic conflict.
Romantic Fantasy
A fantasy world built around a central romance as much as the plot around it.
Science Fiction
Science fiction explores speculative ideas science, technology, society, space, the future. It plays well with others too, often blending into thriller, romance, horror, or adventure.
Space Opera
Big, sprawling science fiction played out across space, often with galactic-scale conflict.
Dystopian Fiction
A troubled or oppressive future society, usually with something to say about the present.
Cyberpunk
Advanced tech meeting a gritty, often dystopian near future.
Time Travel
Characters moving between points in time, dealing with whatever that stirs up.
Military Science Fiction
Combat and strategy, set against a science fiction backdrop.
Hard Science Fiction
Scientific accuracy isn’t a nice-to-have here, it’s central to the story.
Horror
Horror is in the business of fear, dread, unease, that thing crawling up the back of your neck. It overlaps easily with fantasy, mystery, thriller, and science fiction.
Supernatural Threats
Fear from ghosts, demons, or forces with no natural explanation.
Monsters
Fear from something human or not posing a direct physical threat.
Psychological Fear
Fear that lives in the mind rather than in any physical danger.
Isolation
Fear sharpened by characters being cut off from help or the outside world.
Dark Environments
Settings abandoned houses, dense woods, crumbling institutions that do a lot of the atmospheric heavy lifting.
Existential Threats
Fear tied to something bigger than any one character forces that threaten survival or meaning itself.
Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is a real historical era and you insert an invented story into that era. It’s a marriage of storytelling and real settings, real events, and social context. Writing it well means balancing creative freedom with real research readers in this genre tend to notice when the history feels off.
Literary Fiction
Literary fiction cares more about character, language, and theme than plot mechanics. It’s not defined by one kind of story; it can dig into identity, morality, memory, or society, and it usually asks more of the reader in the process.
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary fiction lives in a recognizable modern world, exploring the kind of stuff that feels current and relatable.
Family
Stories built around family dynamics and the complications that come with them.
Relationships
Friendships and relationships that aren’t strictly romance rules.
Careers
Stories about professional life, ambition and the workplace.
Identity
Stories where the characters figure out who they are.
Social Issues
Stories that engage directly with the challenges of the world right now.
Personal Change
Stories built around a character’s internal transformation over time.
Action and Adventure
Action and adventure fiction is all about movement danger, exploration, quests, high-stakes situations. It can stand on its own or mix freely with fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, or thriller.
Young Adult Fiction
Here’s an important distinction: Young Adult, or YA, is an age category, not a genre of its own. It tells you who the book is for, not what kind of story it is.
YA Romance
Romance written for teen readers, with age-appropriate relationship stakes.
YA Fantasy
Dream books for kids that are often about coming of age.
YA Mystery
Mystery for teens, usually with a teenage protagonist doing the solving.
YA Science Fiction
Science fiction seen through a young protagonist’s eyes.
YA Thriller
Thriller-level tension, calibrated for a younger readership.
YA Contemporary Fiction
Realistic, contemporary stories about relatable coming-of-age situations.
Nonfiction Book Genres
Nonfiction is grounded in the real world, real people, real events, real ideas. That covers a lot of ground, from deeply personal memoir to practical business books to instructional how-tos.
Memoir
Memoir zeroes in on selected experiences rather than trying to cover an entire life the way an autobiography might. It usually centers on a particular period, relationship, or theme and the best ones pair storytelling with genuine reflection.
Biography and Autobiography
A biography is someone else telling your story; an autobiography is you telling it yourself. Both dig into experiences, achievements, challenges, and the historical context surrounding a life.
Self-Help and Personal Development
Self-help exists to help readers solve a problem, build a skill, or change something about how they live. Readers show up expecting practical value, something they can actually use, not just nod along to.
Productivity
Guidance on time management, focus, and getting things done.
Personal Finance
Help with making a budget, saving money, spending, and becoming more stable.
Relationships
Helpful tips on how to talk to people more clearly and get closer to the people in your life.
Habits
How to create habits that stick and ditch the ones that don’t serve you anymore.
Confidence
Help with having real self-confidence and the guts to speak out when it matters.
Leadership
Help with making decisions that will last and lead others well.
Personal Growth
More general self-improvement that doesn’t fit nicely into one group.
Business and Economics
Business books cover a wide swath of professional territory, written for everyone from executives to students just starting out.
Entrepreneurship
Starting, building, and scaling a business from the ground up.
Leadership
Supporting teams and organizations with decisions that matter.
Management
The day to day operation of teams and projects are good.
Marketing
Getting a product, service, or idea in front of the right audience.
Finance
Financial strategy at the business level budgeting, investing, forecasting.
Workplace Strategy
Navigating organizational dynamics and building a career inside them.
Innovation
Developing new ideas, products, or approaches within a business.
History
History books are based on actual events, individuals and periods. They are based on study, sources and interpretation, not fabrication. Some cover great swathes of time; others are concerned with something restricted and specific.
True Crime
True crime tells the story of real criminal cases: the investigations, the victims, the legal proceedings. It sits at the intersection of journalism, history, and biography, and readers come to it for both the facts and the human story behind them.
Travel
Travel writing takes different shapes depending on whether the goal is practical, personal, or purely inspirational.
Travel Guides
Practical, destination-focused books built to help someone plan a trip.
Personal Travel Narratives
First-person accounts of a writer’s own journey.
Destination Books
Books that dig deep into one specific place.
Cultural Guides
Books focused on understanding the culture and customs of a place.
Travel Memoirs
Personal storytelling shaped by the experience of travel itself.
Cookbooks and Food
Cookbooks bring the recipes; food-related nonfiction can go broader into food history, culture, science, or personal experience. Specialized cookbooks narrow in further, on a cuisine, a diet, or a technique.
Health and Wellness
Health and wellness books cover fitness, nutrition, mental well-being, and lifestyle. Given the subject, accuracy and responsible framing matter more here than almost anywhere else in nonfiction.
Art and Photography
Art and photography books lean on visuals as much as text, which means paper stock, image quality, trim size, and print production genuinely matter to the reading experience.
Photography Collections
Books built entirely around a curated set of photographs.
Artist Monographs
Books dedicated to a single artist’s body of work.
Portfolios
Books showcasing a creator’s range across different projects.
Art History
Books examining art movements and their cultural context.
Design Books
Books centered on visual, product, or graphic design.
Illustrated Collections
Books built around illustration rather than photography or fine art.
How-To and Instructional Books
How-to books teach readers to complete a task or master a process. Clear organization and practical examples matter more here than polished prose readers just want to know how to do the thing.
Can a Book Belong to More Than One Genre?
Absolutely and honestly, a lot of the most interesting books do. Combining genres lets an author bring together different reader interests. But blending genres doesn’t mean giving each one equal billing in your marketing. You still need one primary genre, with the rest playing a supporting role.
Examples of Common Genre Blending
Romantic Historical Fiction
An epic romance with a poignant plot and a historical setting.
Psychological Thriller Suspense.
Thriller stakes with a heavy emphasis on mental and emotional distress.
Romantic Fantasy
A fantastical universe with a central relationship to drive the story.
Science-Fiction Thriller
Speculative science fiction idea, thriller tempo.
Historical Mystery
A historical setting wrapped around an investigation-driven plot.
Cozy Fantasy
World-building in a fantasy setting with a lighter note of cozy fiction.
Literary Horror
Horror’s fear and dread combined with literary fiction’s focus on language and theme.
How to Identify Your Primary Genre
Ask yourself what readers are actually coming to the book for. If the point of the story is solving a crime, mystery is probably your primary genre even if there’s a romance running alongside it. If the point is watching two characters fall for each other, romance is probably your primary genre even if it happens to be set in a fantasy world. Whatever readers are primarily showing up to experience, that’s your genre.
How to Choose the Right Genre for Your Book
This gets easier once you look at your manuscript from both a creative angle and a publishing one.
1. Identify the Core Story or Subject
In the end, what is your book really about? For stories, consider the central conflict and the character’s arc. When you are writing nonfiction, consider what is the core point or what change you want your readers to make.
2. Identify Your Target Reader
Get specific about who you’re writing for. This one step makes almost everything else about genre positioning easier.
Age
The age range most likely to connect with your book’s content and tone.
Interests
The subjects and hobbies your ideal reader is already drawn to.
Problems
For nonfiction especially, what problem is this reader trying to solve?
Reading Preferences
The pacing, tone, and structure your reader tends to enjoy.
Existing Genre Preferences
The genres your ideal reader already gravitates toward.
Familiar Books They May Already Enjoy
Specific titles your reader has probably already read and liked.
3. Study Comparable Books
Find books that genuinely resemble yours not to copy them, but to understand how your corner of the market talks to readers.
Genre and Subgenre
How do comparable titles classify themselves, broadly and specifically?
Cover Design
What visual style, imagery, and typography are they using?
Book Description
How do they craft their pitch and start with a hook?
Categories and Keywords
What retailer categories and search phrases do they use?
Tone and Reader Expectations
What overall voice and promises are they making to readers?
4. Identify Genre Conventions
Every genre carries expectations. Mystery readers want questions answered. Romance readers want the emotional arc to land. Thriller readers want the tension to keep climbing. Self-help readers want guidance they can actually use. None of this means you can’t push against convention, it just means you should know what you’re pushing against.
5. Choose the Most Accurate Subgenre
Once you’ve chosen your broad genre, look for the more specific classification underneath it. A narrower, accurate subgenre helps you reach readers with more precise tastes.
6. Check Retailer Categories and Metadata
Your genre choice needs to line up with your retailer metadata; everything should be telling the same story.
Categories
The classifications a retailer uses to shelve and surface your book.
Keywords
The search terms readers actually use that should connect to your book.
Title and Subtitle
Wording that reflects genre expectations at first glance.
Book Description
A pitch that backs up the same message that your cover and groups send.
Author Positioning
How your bio and credentials support the book’s genre and credibility.
7. Make Your Cover Match the Genre
Your cover is often the very first signal a reader gets. A romance cover shouldn’t look like it belongs in a horror novel or a business book, for that matter. If your cover, description, and genre seem to describe three different books, readers get uncertain fast, and uncertain readers don’t buy.
Why Book Genre Matters When Publishing
Genre reaches well past the manuscript itself. It shapes how a book gets designed, presented, categorized, and marketed.
Genre and Book Cover Design
A cover should reflect the visual language of its genre: typography, imagery, composition, and color all play a part in signaling what’s inside.
Genre and Book Description
Your description should reinforce the genre from the first line. A mystery blurb should spark curiosity; a business blurb should get straight to the problem and the payoff.
Genre and Keywords
Genre-related terms feed your broader metadata strategy but stick to language that actually reflects your book, not popular terms you’re hoping to piggyback on.
Genre and Retailer Categories
Categories are how retailers help readers browse. Accurate ones put your book in front of people who are actually likely to want it.
Genre and Reader Expectations
This might be the most important relationship of all. Readers pick a genre because they want a specific kind of experience and your job is to deliver on that, honestly.
How Genre Affects Amazon Book Positioning
If you’re publishing through Amazon KDP, genre needs to work alongside the rest of your metadata.
Picture it as a chain:
Genre → Subgenre → Categories → Keywords → Cover → Description → Reader Expectations
Every link needs to hold. If your book is a psychological thriller but the cover reads like a rom-com and the blurb leans hard into family drama, you’ve confused the very readers you’re trying to reach. Consistency is what gives someone a clear reason to choose your book over the next one.
Avoid Choosing a Genre Only Because It Is Popular
A trending genre isn’t automatically the right one for your book. Trends shift, and readers within the same broad genre often want very different things. Accuracy beats popularity every time your goal is connecting with readers who’ll actually enjoy the book, not squeezing it into a category that doesn’t fit.
How to Research Book Genre Trends
Genres shift, so it’s worth checking the current landscape before locking in your publishing decisions.
Study Current Bestseller Lists
Check out what is selling in your genre right now, and how those books are positioned.
Analyze Comparable Books
Study books that are really similar to yours, not just whatever’s at the top of the charts overall.
Review Retailer Categories
See how retailers are organizing your genre and which subcategories show up.
Read Reader Reviews
Reviews reveal what readers actually value, dislike, or expect from books like yours.
Watch Emerging Subgenres
New combinations and reader trends keep creating fresh, more specific subgenres worth knowing about.
Use trends as research, not as a reason to bend your manuscript into a shape it was never meant to take.
Common Book Genre Mistakes Authors Make
Choosing a Genre Only Because It Is Popular
Popularity shouldn’t win over accuracy; a mismatched genre just confuses the readers most likely to love your book.
Confusing Genre With Age Category
Young Adult and Children’s describe an audience, not a genre.
Ignoring Subgenres
A broad genre alone often doesn’t tell readers enough about what they’re actually getting.
Trying to Target Everyone
A book aimed at everyone tends to land with no one in particular.
Misrepresenting the Genre
If the book doesn’t deliver what the genre promises, readers notice and say so in reviews.
Ignoring Genre Conventions
You can absolutely break the rules on purpose. Breaking them by accident is a different story.
Using Inconsistent Metadata
Your title, cover, description, keywords, and categories should all be telling the same story.
Relying Entirely on AI for Genre Classification
AI can spot themes and suggest possible classifications, but it doesn’t know your market or your goals. Genre positioning still needs a human call.
Book Genre Checklist for Authors
Before you hit publish, run through these questions to sanity-check your genre positioning.
What Is My Book’s Primary Genre?
Have you settled on the one genre that best represents the dominant reader experience?
What Subgenre Best Describes It?
Have you narrowed your primary genre down to something more specific?
Who Is the Target Reader?
Thus, can you explain your ideal reader in some detail, not in broad strokes?
What Genre Conventions Should I Understand?
Do you know what readers in this genre expect from the story or content?
Which Books Are My Closest Comparables?
Have you actually identified two or three genuinely similar titles?
What Tropes or Themes Are Important?
Do you know which recurring elements matter most to your readers?
Do My Cover and Description Match the Genre?
Are your visual and written positioning sending the same signal?
Are My Retailer Categories Accurate?
Do your chosen categories reflect what the book actually is, not just what you’re hoping for?
Are My Keywords Relevant?
Do your keywords reflect real search terms tied to your book?
Does My Metadata Present a Consistent Position?
Do your title, description, categories, and keywords all tell the same story?
Am I Choosing This Genre Because It Fits?
Is this genre a genuine match for your book, or just what’s trending right now?
If you can answer these with confidence, you’re in solid shape.
How Pen2Publishing Supports Authors With Genre-Based Publishing
Figuring out your genre is really just step one. Once you know your genre and audience, the book still needs to look and feel consistent across its content, cover, formatting, and metadata which is where the real publishing work begins.
Pen2Publishing works alongside authors on the publishing and content transformation side, including print book formatting, eBook formatting, EPUB and EPUB3 conversion, typesetting, custom cover design, and author website design.
A genre-aware approach to formatting and design helps make sure your finished book actually looks like the genre it belongs to. Whether you’re putting out a paperback, a hardcover, or a digital edition, your manuscript, cover, and formatting should all be pulling in the same direction toward a consistent, honest reading experience.
Choosing a Book Genre
At the end of the day, book genres exist to help authors and readers understand each other. For readers, genre is a quick signal about what they’re about to experience. For authors, it’s a framework for writing, for designing a cover, for choosing categories, for marketing a book that actually finds its people.
But genre was never meant to box creativity in. Plenty of great books mix romance with fantasy, or mystery with history, or science fiction with thriller pacing. The real skill is understanding what each genre promises and figuring out which promise your book is actually making.
So instead of just asking “what genre is my book?” try asking: “Who is this book for, what experience am I giving them, and how do I make that clear to the readers who’ll love it?” That’s the question that turns genre from a label into an actual publishing strategy.
FAQs
1. What are the main book genres?
The two main categories are fiction and nonfiction, with many genres and subgenres under each.
2. What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?
Fiction is made up stories , nonfiction is about real people , real events , real facts and real ideas.
3. How many book genres are there?
There is no fixed number. Genres continue to grow as new subgenres and reader trends emerge.
4. Can a book have more than one genre?
Yeah. Books can be cross-genre, such as historical romance or psychological thriller.
5. Is Young Adult a genre?
Nope. Young adult (YA) is an age range that includes genres including romance, fantasy and mystery.
6. How do I choose a genre for my book?
Think about your story. Your target readers. Books like yours. Genre conventions for your manuscript.
7. Does genre affect Amazon book categories?
I am. Yes. The genres you choose will determine the Amazon categories and keywords you use for your book.