This chapter draws on dozens of interviews with Australian crime, fantasy and romance fiction writers and publishing professionals conducted for the ‘Genre Worlds’ project on contemporary Australian popular fiction (2016–19). It analyses features of the genre worlds of Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Key focal points include Australian genre fiction’s role within large and small publishing houses, its uptake of self-publishing technologies, the use of social media for networking and marketing, and the importance of festivals, conventions and associations. The chapter demonstrates how the specific textual, social and industrial conventions of Australian genre fiction developed over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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