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.
10 Comments
January 28, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Airport security humor
The world will be a better place when there are lots of these books!
January 28, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Economic fantasy novels
sports pharmaceutical guides
self-help guides for the formerly wealthy
January 29, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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.
January 30, 2009 at 3:19 pm
“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.
January 30, 2009 at 7:35 pm
So would Deborah’s genre be the Tea Cosy genre?
January 30, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Genre: “The Teapot Murder Mysteries”
February 3, 2009 at 10:15 pm
reality-TV thrillers
February 4, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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!”
February 9, 2009 at 8:20 pm
tourist guides to weblife locales.
February 9, 2009 at 8:52 pm
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 …