Finishing up on subgenres. Mashups. The kinds of crazy mashups I have found between different subgenres, genres, other subgenres, etc. remind me of when my 2 friends and I used to take driving vacations to small towns in Texas(yes, I digress) We used to enjoy seeing & calling out what you could call the business 'mashups' They were really 2 businesses sharing a building to save $$$. But, we'd search for the "Bakery/Funeral Parlor" or the "Taxidermy/Bridal Gowns" stores. Yes, versions of this sort of thing do exist in many small towns in Texas.

Anyway, here's some mashups I have found - Chick-Lit/Fantasy/Vampires. Examples are: Almost to Die For: A Vampire Princess novel, by Tate Hallaway & Fangs for the Memories by Kathy Love. These were both shelved in our mainstream fiction section, not Romance or Fantasy. Another subgenre-genre mashup is Sci Fi/Adventure - Lost Lands. I found a couple of shipwreck stories like that - Life of Pi, by Yann Martel and Shipwreck Crusoe by Ken Milano. The first title is shelved in Fiction and, I believe, the 2nd one is in Science Fiction.