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Responding to folks here: Sarah, that could go a lot of different ways. Someone might say that’s alternate history. Others might still say that’s urban. But it really sounds like you are similar to me where you are trying to find a place for your story. I’d be happy to talk with you and figure out if we would work well together. =D
Bonnie, you could be right. I didn’t know contemporary fantasy really existed until last year. And I often don’t see it being used as anything else than a catch all for stuff that doesn’t fit into other ideas in Fantasy when I google the term. In fact I might say that they are synonymous to some folks.
Lazarus, Modern Fantasy is what I used to think my writing was at one point or at least that is what I called it a few years ago. I’d be happy to talk with your about your work and see if that would be a good fit for us too!
You mention that it sounds like I’m doing alt-history. I’m not. I make the geography familiar because of the science behind how worlds function as far as I know, but I’m not writing in Alaska or Canada. Familiarity is still important even working in a secondary world. It helps to ground folks. That’s what I’m hoping to do with making thing familiar.
