"Tag, you’re it! What bookstores should learn from fanfiction"
This is an article I wrote recently about how the bookstore categories are not really helping in finding stuff you want to read and how I think that readers, authors, and publishers could profit from using keyword and trope tags instead.
https://jeyranmain.com/2025/01/01/tag-youre-it-what-bookstores-should-learn-from-fanfiction-by-strange-seawolf/
(Also it has some advertising for #HeraldPetrel in between the text but not in the text itself.)
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