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If you are a writer of this kind of speculative fiction, you have a choice to make.   It might seem restrictive to class yourself as a “Sci Fi Author” or a “Fantasy Author”, but it has to be done - when you publish your first book, the book shops need to know which shelf to slot you in!

This is not a decision to be made lightly.   The chances are that you will remain on that shelf for the rest of your career.   If your first successful novel is a Sci Fi piece, then you decide to write about an amateur fishkeeper’s adventure to the local pet shop to get a new ornament (I’d totally read that book) it’ll be put in the Sci Fi section.   Or more likely, the publisher will ask you to make it a Space-ornament that he gets at the space-pet shop.

So that’s something you can do now.   If you’re writing a book with both magical elements and Sci Fi - which market do you want to aim for?

A quick hint:   The Sci Fi market is bigger than the Fantasy one.   Add a few more “Space-” prefixes and you’ll sell twice as many!