Formulas of Popular Fiction

Anna Faktorovich is the founder and director of the Anaphora Literary Press and the editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal. She has been a professor of English for Middle Georgia College and for Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Hephzibah, Georgia.

• Table of ContentsChronology of Works Discussed deleteviiIntroductionChapter 1. Formulaic Fiction Writing and the History of Literary GenresChapter 2. Fantasy, Science Fiction and HorrorChapter 3. RomanceChapter 4. Religious and InspirationalChapter 5. Mystery and DetectiveConclusionChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“a fascinating read...very highly recommended”—Midwest Book Review; “Anna Faktorovich has written an impressive study of genre writing. It is comprehensively informative and enticing on an intellectual level and simultaneously encouraging and useful to those embarking on a writing career. Formulaic authorship is not as creatively rewarding as producing Lolita or King Lear, but those future Luke Skywalkers and Harry Potters will pay the rent.”—Robert Hauptman, editor, Journal of Information Ethics.