#ComedyBookWeek discussion

We are all humour, but could we benefit from listing our genres otherwise—just to know the group composition? Just how many are NOT rom-com?

I am NOT rom-com. My books are funny mysteries and suspense. Though there's always an element of romance, it's not the point of the books.

Mine are not rom-com. They're more of a magical realism adventure comedy.

So we have
rom-com
mystery
magical adventure
(and mine are legal comedy).

Anything else?

I want to do a graph. I think it would be fun!

Hi everyone! I'm new here, first round of drinks on me. :-)

My book, A Terrible Book, is straight comedy/satire and pokes fun of pop culture, tropes, and bad writing. It would probably also work well categorized as funny adventure.

We've got:
Mystery,
Magical Adventure,
Legal Comedy,
Satire,
Romantic Comedy

Any takers for humor in children's books, how-to, business, education?

Mine is a collection set in the one village, but each story is different. A few are more of a 'Who is it?' some of elements of romance, but quite a lot of pathos. Mine is also quite satirical at times as well as farcical.

I have to be honest, they change from story to story so I can't pin down exactly what my Bumpkinton stories are overall, as each one comes from a different angle

Mine, Tales of the Troupe, is a collection of stories about a young comedy troupe in Manhattan in the 1980s. It's got a lot of humor, plus romance, plus bathos/pathos.

Horror comedy. A bowling vampire, a beer-guzzling, narcissistic werewolf, a diner waitress turned witch, a stuttering alien abductee, etc. All nestled in the northwoods of Wisconsin.

Mystery,
Magical Adventure,
Legal Comedy,
Satire,
Romantic Comedy
and—wow—
Horror comedy

Welcome to Hell Damini is one-quarter adventure, one-quarter fantasy, one-quarter comedy, one-quarter paranormal, and one-quarter mathematics.

I am putting it under paranormal math. Anybody who is opposed, raise my hand.

Paranormal math? Math scares the hell out of me. Maybe you should put it under arithmetic horror, too. Oh, and will you leave the light on in there?

Portia wrote: "Mystery,
Magical Adventure,
Legal Comedy,
Satire,
Romantic Comedy
and—wow—
Horror comedy"

Wow? Why wow? Horror SHOULD be hilarious. Ask anyone. (And by "anyone" I mean Bruce Campbell or Simon Pegg.)

That exchange scared me so much that I am leaving the light on permanently.

Is paranormal mathematics completely different to regular maths...because I counted 5 quarters :o!

Great review of my book about writing for a comedy troupe, Tales of the Troupe. Check it out!

http://indiereader.com/2015/07/tales-...

My books are scifi comedy with no romance at all.

One of my books is rom com, definitely - but another has more of a suspense angle to it. Is suspenseful humour a genre? ;)

My book isn't rom com, although there are elements of romance within it. I guess it can best be described as a 1960's sci-fi spoof, which is funny in a quirky British way, scary, weird, and vaguely psychedelic.

Here's what I have:

Mystery,
Magical Adventure,
Legal Comedy,
Satire,
Romantic Comedy
Sci-fi comedy without a hint of romance
Sci-fi spoof with a hint of romance
and—still wow—
Horror comedy

I would call mine Action and Adventure, although me thinks I might have invented "dude-lit". Must have something to do with all the guns and limo chases...