Today, we welcome back author Pam Jenoff, who wrote a great article for Booksquare called “A Rose By Any Other Name: Has Genre Become Irrelevant?”. Today, Pam explores publicity challenges facing authors, including shifts in world of literary agents as they develop programs to help authors in the wild world of publicity. As you’ll see, there are no easy answers to the questions Pam is asking, and she invites new thinking into her paradox.
[BS: How a novel is marketed often signifies how it is perceived. And, as we all know, genre designation does not necessarily adequately capture the essence of a book. Today, we bring you Pam Jenoff, author of the gorgeous The Kommandant’s Girl, who has experienced the ping pong nature of genre designation firsthand (and survived to tell the tale!).] Since the announcement in June that my first novel, The Kommandant’s Girl, was up for a Quill Award, I have heard from many readers who are surprised that the book, which depicts a young Jewish woman’s struggle in World War II
