Trick
Auror
It's been a while since I've been here, overtime and full time school are to blame, but I've been struggling with a question that I knew people here have thought about.
I can't classify my book...
I hear often enough that a specific genre is something of a requirement for publishing but, even though I'm not at the marketing stage yet, I want opinions on the genre because it will help me in my writing as well. I think reading books that fall into the category of mine would be great reads and I need help finding them.
Ok, here goes: It's a first person (memoir style) story of a boy who grows up in poverty. His whole race lives at night and sleeps during the day and are separated from the wealthy "day" society by a huge wall. The day society has hover vehicles and my version of computers and all sorts of advanced technology. The night society, called Murks, has the leavings of previous technology: limited electricity, gas powered vehicles that are older than dirt, etc. The Murks do the dirty work, including all of the farming and janitorial things; they are let into the Day city, called Epyria, by teleporter, as the walls are sealed and only hover vehicles can come and go.
The MC sees his father murdered, becomes a thief, becomes an assassin, goes to jail. In jail he learns of his peoples ancient magic. He escapes, gets the magic and goes on a personal vendetta mission against his enemies and stumbles into battling the villain who is the poilitical leader turned dictator of Epyria.
There is a lot of dark imagery, violence and despair combined with action, suspense and magic. There are also the scfi-fi aspects, the crime (organized and otherwise) plus the mentor/student relationship in prison. On top of it all, the MC is largely selfish and only cares about one other person by the end of the book.
This is not supposed to be Earth in any stage, way or time period.
Any thoughts?
I can't classify my book...
I hear often enough that a specific genre is something of a requirement for publishing but, even though I'm not at the marketing stage yet, I want opinions on the genre because it will help me in my writing as well. I think reading books that fall into the category of mine would be great reads and I need help finding them.
Ok, here goes: It's a first person (memoir style) story of a boy who grows up in poverty. His whole race lives at night and sleeps during the day and are separated from the wealthy "day" society by a huge wall. The day society has hover vehicles and my version of computers and all sorts of advanced technology. The night society, called Murks, has the leavings of previous technology: limited electricity, gas powered vehicles that are older than dirt, etc. The Murks do the dirty work, including all of the farming and janitorial things; they are let into the Day city, called Epyria, by teleporter, as the walls are sealed and only hover vehicles can come and go.
The MC sees his father murdered, becomes a thief, becomes an assassin, goes to jail. In jail he learns of his peoples ancient magic. He escapes, gets the magic and goes on a personal vendetta mission against his enemies and stumbles into battling the villain who is the poilitical leader turned dictator of Epyria.
There is a lot of dark imagery, violence and despair combined with action, suspense and magic. There are also the scfi-fi aspects, the crime (organized and otherwise) plus the mentor/student relationship in prison. On top of it all, the MC is largely selfish and only cares about one other person by the end of the book.
This is not supposed to be Earth in any stage, way or time period.
Any thoughts?
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