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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 116: Micro Genres We Love with Susie (@NovelVisits)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Episode 116, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) joins me to talk about niching down from traditional genre categories into the micro genres we love.  Over the past year, I have picked up on some key themes and types of books that I can generally count on for successful reading. Today, we're putting them all in one special episode as Susie and I bring you a delightfully overflowing list of the micro genres that work for us, books from each, and why we love them.

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Micro Genres We Love  [2:41]

Books by Former or Current Attorneys [3:20]

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Frenzied but Favorable Family Dynamics [7:19]

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Suspenseful Books That Are Not Truly Thrillers,
But That Publishers Market as Thrillers  [11:09]

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Hell No! Women's Stories  [16:22]

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Historical Fiction About Women Breaking the Stereotypes and Limitations of Their Time  [19:19]

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Literary Angst  [22:41]

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Oral Histories  [28:13]

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Trust No One  [33:45]

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Badass Female Athlete Fiction / Competition Novels  [38:09]

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Faithful Friends / Ensembles [44:05]

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Other Books Mentioned

About Susie Boutry

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Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books she read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend's blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of her own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week, I talk with a bookish

0:15.4

guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they do not love, and one new release

0:22.0

they're excited about. We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky about all things,

0:26.8

books. If you like the show, I'd love it if you follow the show in your podcast player,

0:31.7

spread the word to your reader friends, post about it on your social media, or support the show

0:37.4

on Patreon at patreon.com slash

0:41.2

Sarah's bookshelves. Supporting the show on Patreon gets you access to bonus podcast episodes and

0:46.6

lots of other goodies. There's also a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio. Let's get

0:52.2

rolling. Today we're doing a special episode with Susie from

0:57.0

Novel Visits. This is an episode type that we have never tried before, but I'm really excited

1:02.3

to give it a shot. This topic has been brewing in my brain for quite a while, and I've been

1:07.6

accumulating different things that I wanted to share relating to

1:11.8

this topic for a long time, and they've been sitting in a draft in my email account.

1:16.1

So I'm so glad that we have a place to put them.

1:18.8

I've noticed over the past year or so that I have some very niche types of books that I can

1:24.4

generally count on to work for me.

1:26.9

These are types that cannot be found in

1:29.8

any of your traditional genre categorizations. So like the genres that you see on goodreads or

1:37.7

that the publisher categorizes a book as, these go much deeper than those broad categories. And many of them probably are not even

1:47.9

technically genres. Actually, I think most of them. But I thought we needed a place to get all of this

1:53.5

out in the open. And even though I have sprinkled mentions of these things throughout various

2:00.6

podcast episodes, bonus episodes,

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