BOOK SHELVES AND TAGS
Picking your genre, shelves and tags is a VERY important but can be a difficult process. This is part of the Metadata that you have to create before your book is live. You must have your book placed where your target audience will be searching. ‘Fiction’ is NOT what we are looking for here. The shelves within fiction/non-fiction are where you book would be in a book store/Amazon Catalogue. Your tags are the categories within your shelves used on Amazon.
One of the easiest methods is to find a bestselling book/author that you feel is most like your book. Use their shelves and tags for your book.
BISG/Book Information Study Group Website Information
The BISAC Subject Headings List, also known as the BISAC Subject Codes List, is a standard used by many companies throughout the supply chain to categorize books based on topical content. The Subject Heading applied to a book can determine where the work is shelved in a brick and mortar store or the genre(s) under which it can be searched for in an internal database.
http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-0-136-bisac-subject-headings-list-major-subjects.php
Amazon Suggestions for Books targeted at Teens and Adults
http://www.amazon.com/BEST-COMING-Books-Teens-Adults/lm/2U1K520V8HGFE
RANDOM HOUSE GENRE LIST
African-American
Biography/Memoir
Body,Mind & Sprint
Business/Economics
Classes
Cooking
Crafts & Hobbies
Education
Fiction/Literature
Games
Juvenile fiction
Mystery
Religion/Spirituality
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Sports
BARNES & NOBLE GENRE LIST – Primary on their website
Books by Subject
Art, Architecture & Photography
Audio Books
Bibles & Bible Studies
Biographies
Business & Money
Children's Books
Computing & Internet
Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Crafts & Hobbies
Diet & Health
Education & Teaching
Film and Music Books
Fiction & Literature
Graphic Novels
History
Home & Garden
Horror Books
Humor
Libros en español
Medicine
Mystery & Crime
Nonfiction
Politics & Current Events
Psychology
Religion
Romance
Science & Nature
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Self-Improvement
Sports & Adventure
Travel
True Crime
AMAZON GENRE LIST – Primary List on their website (BOOKS list) Including the main Teen categories & the number of books in each category
Arts & Photography (373,615)
Biographies & Memoirs (454,952)
Business & Investing (1,376,048)
Children's Books (858,284)
Comics & Graphic Novels (105,119)
Computers & Internet (373,374)
Cooking, Food & Wine (118,669)
Entertainment (454,493)
Gay & Lesbian (29,302)
Health, Mind & Body (529,283)
History (2,146,148)
Home & Garden (241,860)
Law (307,549)
Literature & Fiction (1,836,491)
Medicine (333,585)
Mystery & Thrillers (126,207)
Nonfiction (3,928,932)
Outdoors & Nature (223,217)
Parenting & Families (83,723)
Professional & Technical (3,320,775)
Reference (994,264)
Religion & Spirituality (899,660)
Romance (165,549)
Science (1,151,516)
Science Fiction & Fantasy (137,056)
Sports (205,779)
Teens (132,331)
Travel (322,016)
AMAZON TEEN GENRE LIST
Biographies & Memoirs (602)
Health, Mind & Body (2,493)
History & Historical Fiction (4,100)
Horror (687)
Literature & Fiction (15,353)
Mysteries (804)
Reference (71)
Religion & Spirituality (1,139)
School & Sports (1,403)
Science & Technology (11,550)
Science Fiction & Fantasy (15,431)
Social Issues (18,157)
Examples - Genre/Shelf/Tags
After Ilium by S. M. Swartz (fantasy)
Black Numbers by Dean Frank Lappi (horror / fantasy)
Emeline and the Mutants by Rachel Tsoumbakos (adult fantasy / horror)
Land of Nod, The Artifact (special edition) by Gary Hoover (YA fantasy)
The Last Good Knight by Connie J. Jasperson (adult fantasy)
The Tower of Bones By Connie J Jasperson (fantasy)
The Night Watchman Express by Alison DeLuca (YA fantasy)
EXAMPLE: RECYCLED SOULS
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Recycled Souls: Special Edition
By Lynette Ferreira, (Edited by) Danielle Raver
Description
For many of us, love is the wildest adventure we will ever encounter.
For most of us, love is the only significant reason.
Elizabeth, a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in California. She is established in her ways and happy, until her parents disrupt her entire life, and move her to Ireland.
She discovers that the history of the land and manor they live in intertwine with the future and past of her own soul. She learns how choices and decisions, albeit not always her own, have brought her to where she is supposed to be, where she always had to be. She realizes there are many different kinds of love and that they are all equally important.
Change is inevitable and by accepting your destiny, you will ultimately be lead to happiness.
Included in this Special Edition is the popular free download All Over Again as part of the story.
Praise for Recycled Souls:
“Recycled Souls grabs the reader with a personal but very absorbing story, projecting the main character's emotions with unusual intensity.” ABNA Expert Reviewer 2010
“…the writing style, expressive of a young girls' experience and accentuated by a dreamy present tense style, offers an excellent read.” ABNA Expert Reviewer 2010
BISAC Category
Metadata and BISAC CODES for Bowkers/Amazon/Barnes and Noble. Link to get BISAC CODES/METADATA specifically for your novel: http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-0-136-bisac-subject-headings-list-major-subjects---2009-edition.php
BISAC Code
FIC043000 FICTION / Coming of Age
FIC044000 FICTION / Contemporary Women
JUV026000 JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance
Additional Information:
Add more information about your book, including an author biography, book language, and more, which will appear in certain sales channels.
Author Biography
Lynette Ferreira is an author of Young Adult fiction and lives in South Africa with her husband and three children. Her writing career began after she graduated from Teacher Training College and was then employed by a financial institution. Here she poured her writing skills and creativity into creating proposals, pitches and documents. Three years ago she directed these skills into creative writing, and published her debut novel, Recycled Souls. Since that time, she has also become the best-selling flash fiction author of The Dark, Dark House; The Beginning of a Life Misunderstood and Would you Remember Me?
Book Language
English
Country of Publication
USA
Publication Date
Search Keywords
Young Adult Books, Teen Books, Love, Romance, High School, Paranormal, Fantasy Romance, Young Adult Fantasy, Reincarnation, Paranormal Fantasy
Contains Adult Content
No
Large Print (must be minimum 16 pt font)
No