Secret Rule #3: Genre, Categories & Pricing answers an important question: how do readers know what your book is about, and whether it is worth buying, before they read a word? Your genre tells them what it is, your categories place it on the right shelf, and your price tells them it fits what they expect to pay. Broad labels like New Adult, Young Adult, Novels, or Nonfiction say very little about what is inside a book. Genres like romance, memoir, mystery, or Christian livin

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