#AtoZChallenge–Theme Reveal!

Once again, I am going to join the 2019 writer’s blog hop called A to Z Challenge—

–but with a twist. Normally, I post 2-3 times a week. This is a good schedule for myself and readers. A to Z requires six posts a week–double my norm! Last year, that seemed to bury my regular readers with far more articles than they could read. That meant they skipped them and that meant–why write all those posts? Yes, the goal of A to Z is to increase readers for participants but I didn’t see that. I got a different set of readers, about what I normally get in any given week, but most of those new ones moved on in May. So although I am joining #AtoZ, I’ll spread the 26 posts out over months (not one month). I’m thinking 1-2 articles a month.

Now for my theme reveal:

Genres

..a genre for every letter of the alphabet. I’ll include:

Definition

Writing tips

Popular books in the genre

Yeah, you’re right. I’ve done this the last two years. The truth is, there are just too many genres. For example, in the past, my F genre has included:

• Fantasy 
• Fan Fiction
• Flash Fiction

That didcn’t even touch on Fractured Fairy Tales. That’s my F topic this year. I skipped the genres I did in 2017 A to Z Challenge and 2018 A to Z Challenge. As a result, many of this year’s genres were new to me (like Kusazoshi–who knew?). I’m amazed how much I learned researching for this blog hop.

Here are the genres I will cover in this year’s challenge (the links won’t work until the article is published, so be patient with me!):

A  American Realism

B Bildungsroman

C Chicklit

D  Digital Storytelling

E  Early American

F Fractured Fairy Tales

G Genre fiction

H  High Fantasy

I   Islamic Fiction

J  Journalism

K Kunstlerroman 

L Lyrical Prose

M Microfiction

N  Native American

O  Owner’s Manual   

P  Prose

Q Quick Fiction

R Regionalism

S  Satire

T Treatises

U sUbterranean Fiction

V  Varsity Novel 

W  Web Serials  

X Xistentialist fiction

Y  YA Contemporary Adventure 

Z  Zine (ezine)–is this done?

OK. See you April 1st!

#atozchallenge

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy, the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers, and the Man vs. Nature saga. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, an Amazon Vine Voice,  and a columnist for NEA Today and TeachHUB. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Quest for Home, Fall 2019. You can find her tech ed books at her publisher’s website, Structured Learning