Is there an official description of Men's Adventures? If so, what is it?
Wow. Hadn't considered that. Guess I need to change categories AGAIN.Dan C. Rinnert said:Does Amazon have a category description anywhere that readers or writers can easily find it?
In the absence of a description, one can see where some might get the impression that "Men's Adventure" might include erotica, especially given that many porn magazines are euphemistically referred to as "men's magazines."
Yeah, absent description, my drunken walks out back to pee with the dogs are "adventures". I wonder if it's just authors complaining about categories, or of readers complain, too. because, they can get pretty silly.Dan C. Rinnert said:In the absence of a description, one can see where some might get the impression that "Men's Adventure" might include erotica, especially given that many porn magazines are euphemistically referred to as "men's magazines."
B-but Paranormal Fantasy exists...Bards and Sages (Julie) said:NOW maybe people understand why I am constantly complaining about genre definitions and placing books in the correct category?![]()
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Tell that to Plato.George Berger said:Eh, whatever. Genres and categories are just arbitrary 20th-century bourgeois social constructs, anyway,
This should be a categoryGolan Globus 80s action movie
As far as I can tell, empirically, he's a 20th-century construct, too.Bards and Sages (Julie) said:Tell that to Plato.![]()
Time will tell. There's a brand new Destroyer spinoff that has Remo's son and daughter working together. I think the series is called Legacy.glutton said:I've read some Mack Bolan and Remo Williams back in the day, also Casca which was listed as 'adventure' in the library... but if you had a Men's Adventure style book with a female MC, would that still be Men's Adventure?
Also, enforcing the categories strictly would require someone to read the books.
Hmmm... if I publish the exact same book, but give a current publish date, couldn't I sue them for copying my work...? I mean, 2030 hasn't even happened yet.Jena H said:I was looking at a particular category, and sorted by release date. The first two pages of entries listed books w/ a release date of Dec 31, 2036. Or 2030, or 2015... you get the idea. The only reason i can think of for that is so that their book will be at the top of the "most recent published" list. And these aren't all self-published indies... many are well-known, trad-published books. Sort of disappointing, if that's the tactic they're using. But hey, maybe I'll try that neat trick on my next book.![]()