What is the genre of your WIP?
Are you sure?
I was sure. Completely certain. And, after eight years of querying, I found out I was wrong.
I don't write "high fantasy." I write "second-world fantasy."
What's the difference? There is one, a very big one. High fantasy is a particular branch of fantasy that may or may not be second-world. High fantasy has certain genre expectations, the same as romance writers expect an HEA: magic/wizards/sorcerers, swords, knights, princesses, queens, lack of technology, etc. Second-world fantasy is literally anything you want, as long as your project doesn't take place on Earth and doesn't fall into the tropes of high fantasy.
I've been querying wrong for so long~~
Please, triple-check yourself, before you wreck yourself. Also, it may not be that you have been mislabeling your work. It may be that the labels have changed. As people dial into trends and tropes, subgenres have been developing. There may now be a label that is more accurate for your work than what you have previously used.
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