WRITE THE GENRE: The Working Writer's Guide to Thriller, Romance, and Romantasy by Ryan V. Mercer

You have written your first book. Maybe your second. You know how to publish on KDP. You know what a trope is, what an HEA is, what a cliffhanger does. What you do not yet know is the thing that separates books readers binge from books they abandon. Write the Genre is the working writer's guide to the three genres driving the modern self-publishing market. Thriller. Romance. Romantasy. Inside, you will find: The exact reader contract each genre makes, and what breaks when you violate it. The five heat levels of romance, defined on the page, with the same scene written at four different temperatures so you can see the difference. The trope-as-promise framework, with worked failure modes and fixes for every major commercial trope. Read more