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Crititque Partner Matching Program
Happy to give unsolicited advice! Actually, I think we need fewer categories, not more. If you look at the current list from inside the crit match settings, you'll see that most of those Romance categories have 0 people signed up for them. Just make it Romance. Maybe, if you can only choose...- John Berkowitz
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The main genres are: Erotica Romance Western Mystery Fantasy Sci-Fi Contemporary Historical...
The main genres are: Erotica Romance Western Mystery Fantasy Sci-Fi Contemporary Historical Thriller Horror Men's Adventure Women's Fiction And the age groups are: Picture Books Chapter Books Middle Grade Young Adult New Adult Adult That should be it. List those two groups and give us the...- John Berkowitz
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Otherwise, you're going to need to add: Arthurian Fantasy Assassin Fantasy Christian Fantasy...
Otherwise, you're going to need to add: Arthurian Fantasy Assassin Fantasy Christian Fantasy Dragon Fantasy Dying Earth Fantasy Erotic Fantasy Fairytale Retelling Gaslamp Fantasy Heroic Fantasy Magical Realism Quest Fantasy Swashbuckling Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Urban Fantasy Alien Invasion...- John Berkowitz
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"All the flavors of Romance" is pretty unfair to everyone else not writing Romance. Because...
"All the flavors of Romance" is pretty unfair to everyone else not writing Romance. Because then we'd have to put all the flavors of Fantasy, all the flavors of Sci-fi, all the flavors of Mystery, and on and on. There are dozens and dozens. But that's not how agents look at books -- and...- John Berkowitz
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Ditto. I have been matched twice with zero response from either person I was matched with...
Ditto. I have been matched twice with zero response from either person I was matched with. Also, the categories confuse "genre" with "age group." MG is not a genre. And do we really need so many flavors of Romance? Most of them have zero members choosing them. One kind of Romance writer...- John Berkowitz
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Crititque Partner Matching Program
Thanks for the swift reply and the clarification. I've been doing this for quite awhile, and at the risk of making more work for you, any such matching system really needs TWO criteria: Genre and Age Group. Romance, Mystery, etc. are genres. Young Adult and Middle Grade are age groups. You...- John Berkowitz
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Crititque Partner Matching Program
I've joined twice, but it never told me I had to be a premium member to participate. I am concerned that all of the genres are basically just different kinds of Romance. What about Fantasy? Sci-Fi? Mystery? What about different age groups; middle grade, young adult, adult, etc? I have a...- John Berkowitz
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