Oh, Great! As though I don't have enough catalog work to do! Now I get to go fix
MORE genre tags.....
Speaking of shooting in the other foot, one time I recommended Martin's PS Longer
Letter Later, making a comment about it being
Epistolary Fiction. Couple of days on, she is back. And taking me to task because I
don't have anything else like it! Yup, on the
screen is Epistolary and one hit.....
Robert Eiffert, Librarian
Pacific Middle School, Vancouver WA
Pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
Beiffert at egreen wednet edu
Beiffert at Comcast net
Amanda Credaro wrote:
<snip> my guess is the correct term
> would be Historical Metafiction . metafiction being (literally) "fiction
> about fiction", so if there's a 'found manuscript' in the plot, then perhaps
> the Historical is an appropriate appellation? But this would depend if the
> author's "claims to be publishing" were from within the context of the
> written work, or external to the work. In which case the correct term would
> be Fraud :-)
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