THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO PATTY FOR HER NEW LITERARY GENRE: “Reality TV Thrillers.”
The Mixed Bag Challenge: a new question each week for the 15 weeks leading up to the Festival. Prizes include a bag for the best each week, and a raffle chance at Festival event tickets for each entry.petite.”
Now it’s your turn. What genre’s yet to be seen in the book world? Ski-diving thrillers? Sci-fi poetry? This week’s challenge: 7. What’s your idea for a new literary genre?
Deadline: Feb 4, Noon. New challenge then.
Airport security humor
The world will be a better place when there are lots of these books!
Economic fantasy novels
sports pharmaceutical guides
self-help guides for the formerly wealthy
The demise of contemporary television…the decline of the influence of television….lost opportunities for education with mass media, especially influence/impact of major channels on general public.
Will Obama reverse this, or will other forms of mass media/communication move into the continuing ‘vacuum?’
Why?
Lost opportunities?
Analysis?
Future?
I have some ideas on why this ‘gap’ is occurring.
“The Teapot Murder Mysteries” — long a well-respected sub-genre of the “Cozy” Mysteries, the mysterious, recent surge in murders by and for teapots, warrants its elevation to genre status.
So would Deborah’s genre be the Tea Cosy genre?
Genre: “The Teapot Murder Mysteries”
reality-TV thrillers
My new genre:
Mulligan — Irish authors with or topics pertaining to ambiguous genitalia.
Brandon Reynolds’ new genre:
The Three Bean Pentameter — metered verse that only contains odes to legumes, and each one must end, as tradition demands, “bean bean bean!”
tourist guides to weblife locales.
barnyard humor,
Stories that my Dad told me (that I never believed),
Stories of brave women who decided to stay home and forget about liberation …
My mother’s diaries … where she dishes about the neighbors …