whybird , 20 days ago

@Schnuckster @bookstodon Better than murdantasy, I suppose.

Schnuckster OP , 20 days ago

@whybird @bookstodon 😳

glc , 21 days ago

@Schnuckster @bookstodon
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There are a lot of people following books on Mastodon who are going to be entirely unsurprised by this.
One good source for broad coverage of such trends is Locus magazine.

The word is a normal sort of portmanteau. Whether its fate long term will be that of "chortled" or that of "slithy" remains to be seen, but that probably depends mainly on the usefulness of the genre for marketing or critical purposes. At the moment, it's useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_fantasy#Romantasy

Schnuckster OP , 21 days ago

@glc @bookstodon Why not call it 'fance'?

glc , 21 days ago

@Schnuckster @bookstodon

Or for that matter, "fancy" I suppose.

That ship has sailed.

wendypalmer , 21 days ago

@glc @Schnuckster @bookstodon not to be too pedantic but it’s possibly because when the trend was just taking off “romantic fantasy” and “fantasy romance” were meant to be two different things ie mostly fantasy with a strong romance subplot vs mostly romance with some fantasy elements (the litmus test being if you can remove the romance and still have the story work)…but that’s not where we are now.