Wednesday, June 5   Assignment 6

I am continuing to enjoy browsing around in the site Stop You're Killing Me, and have now recommended it to customers too.  The overall design is clean and the advertising is unobtrusive and does not detract, annoy, or impede access to all the useful information.  One thing I especially like is when you go into a specific detective's list of books (all in chronological order) there is a link to the author's personal website as well as all the other lists of titles that author has written.  Very helpful.  Clicking on new audio books takes you right to Amazon where you can order, read reviews, and see who is voicing it.

The Prezi link of genres and subgenres is nicely laid out.  There are many more subgenres of SF than what's shown here.  For a complete list, check out the book Genreflecting, unfortunately no longer owned by BCPL.  Not sure if Nancy Pearl's series lists them all out, but I'm sure it's just as good.  This would also be fun to show to customers.  Really clever.

The three subgenres I chose are: Western--Pioneer Families/Wagons West; Horror--Monsters/Mad Creations; and Adventure--Exotic Lands.

There are many small groups celebrating the our western heritage/history in literature.  One I found is http://westernauthors.com, a directory of western authors, writers, and books. They are sponsored by Amazon, and contain links to Project Gutenberg and other sites where readers can download free books in the public domain.  The various western subgeneres are listed, with representative authors.  Here are three for Pioneer Families/Wagons West: Elizabeth Butler, Harvey Goodman, and Juanita Holbrook Ingram.  Most of the authors listed have links to their personal websites.   The draw to this site is reminiscence, remembering the wild west of classic films and bygone stories.  The appeal factors here are setting and tone. The site is clearly a labor of love.  I found this useful homage to westerns by using the search engine www.duckduckgo.com, and typing in "western fiction" "fans of pioneer fiction."