Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

Visionary Fiction

What is Visionary Fiction?

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Previously posted by Margaret Duarte at VFA under title: Relevance of Visionary Fiction. Before I explain what Visionary Fiction is, let me position it on a chart that shows the basic types of literature and genres. As you can see, rather than being a genre of its own, Visionary Fiction is a subgenre of Speculative Fiction, […]

Making Room for Visionary Fiction on the Genre Shelf

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Visionary fiction is not metaphysical fiction. Visionary fiction is not magical realism. Visionary fiction is not religious fiction or sci-fi or fantasy. What will it take for traditional publishers to make room on the shelf for fiction that speaks the language of the soul and offers a vision of humanity as we dream it can […]

Victory for Visionary Fiction

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Thanks to Victor E. Smith at Visionary Fiction Alliance, I can now direct all readers to Wikipedia when they ask, “What is Visionary Fiction?” Exciting news for all Visionary Fiction authors, readers and lurkers: As of August 2014 a entry entitled “Visionary fiction” has been published on Wikipedia. This feat of sweat and scholarship was […]

DIVERGENT and Visionary Fiction, Factions Apart

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Violence aside, I would gladly welcome the dystopian sci-fi novel Divergent into the visionary fiction “faction.” Veronica Roth deserves her New York Times Bestselling Author status. She deserves her book’s 13,236 Amazon reviews (9,524 of which are five stars). She deserves her book sales of over eleven million. All these accolades are merited because Divergent […]

Between Now and Forever, 2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist

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Between Now and Forever, the first novel in my ENTER THE BETWEEN series, is a 2014 ABNA Quarter finalist. That means my novel made it through round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, where 10,000 entries were whittled down to 2,000, and round two, where 2,000 entries were whittled even further to 500.