Looking for comp titles for my weird book — help?
I've written a sports conspiracy thriller set in an alternate world with elves, goblins, orcs, etc, and I genuinely have no idea who else is writing in this space or who my readers are.
The closest thing I can point to is Dick Francis, specifically the physical vulnerability, the institutional corruption, and the sport-as-backdrop feel. But Francis isn't fantasy, and his readership tends to avoid fantasy, so I'm not sure that helps me find my people.
The fantasy elements are background rather than foreground. No magic system focus, no hidden magical community. The magic is openly known, as are their various races. You get humans, elves, and orcs playing professional football in a world that otherwise feels pretty contemporary. (Even if the protagonist avoids social media.)
Does this sound like anything you've read? I'm stumped. The things I've found in searching either have the hidden-magic element or a collision with a magical reality that didn't exist before, which this one doesn't have.
If doing the "look inside" helps, the Kindle book is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSQL2M3N#