Luna novels get shelved in fantasy if they're not by a recognizable romance name. I gather this doesn't affect the numbers--they seem to be running consistently several times higher than the usual fantasy numbers, with a pretty nice sell-through for this day and age.
So far, this hasn't been my experience -- but I'm in Canada. If they're being shelved in the Fantasy sections in the US, I'm happy to hear it.
We have one book chain, and the orders are done entirely through head office; head office designates the section the book is to be shelved under, and the staff isn't to change that, even if it's inaccurate. So the Luna books have been shelved as romance novels here. In the last two months, this may have changed.
Lackey was the only Luna author shelved with the Fantasy (the SF section is also separate in the chains) when I last checked; the advantage -- or disadvantage -- in the way the books are coded by head office means that if it's in one section in one store, it will be in the same section in the others. Asaro, whose entire history has been SF, was shelved in the Romance section.
I don't know what the independents are doing with the Luna titles, though. I know we carry them, and obviously there's no separate fiction sections (we also shelve SF and Fantasy in one continuous section) because we're a specialty store. Or rather, SF, Fantasy and Horror novels and single author collections are shelved alphabetically by author's last name. Media tie-ins and Gaming tie-ins are shelved separately, as are YAs and anthologies.
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Date: 2004-11-07 09:30 pm (UTC)So far, this hasn't been my experience -- but I'm in Canada. If they're being shelved in the Fantasy sections in the US, I'm happy to hear it.
We have one book chain, and the orders are done entirely through head office; head office designates the section the book is to be shelved under, and the staff isn't to change that, even if it's inaccurate. So the Luna books have been shelved as romance novels here. In the last two months, this may have changed.
Lackey was the only Luna author shelved with the Fantasy (the SF section is also separate in the chains) when I last checked; the advantage -- or disadvantage -- in the way the books are coded by head office means that if it's in one section in one store, it will be in the same section in the others. Asaro, whose entire history has been SF, was shelved in the Romance section.
I don't know what the independents are doing with the Luna titles, though. I know we carry them, and obviously there's no separate fiction sections (we also shelve SF and Fantasy in one continuous section) because we're a specialty store. Or rather, SF, Fantasy and Horror novels and single author collections are shelved alphabetically by author's last name. Media tie-ins and Gaming tie-ins are shelved separately, as are YAs and anthologies.