Episode

How do agents see genre?

Podcast: Story Nerd
Published: Jul 17, 2026
Duration seconds: 2482
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Summary

Genre is a funny topic in our business because nobody can seem to agree on it. That makes querying agents a particularly tricky situation ... what if the agent has a different perspective of your story’s genre than you do? What happens then? In today’s Hook Your Reader episode, we offer our take on a horror story with fantasy elements that may, or may not, actually be an action story or a haunted house story or even a global internal genre story. -V.