Genres
Genres are your product categories. The homepage’s Browse by Genre grid shows up to eight of them: categories with books and without sub-categories, most books first, each with its category image, name and number of books.
Give each category an image under Products → Categories → edit a category → Thumbnail, so its tile has artwork. Write a description too: it shows at the top of the genre’s page.
Reading lists
Reading lists are product tags. Tag books, for example rainy-day-reads, and the homepage’s Curated reading lists shows your four biggest lists as magazine features, each with a fan of its books and a link to the list’s page.
Give each tag a description under Products → Tags: it appears with the list on the homepage and on its page.
The tags editors-pick, staff-picks and forthcoming have their own jobs, so they aren’t shown as reading lists.
The Editor’s Pick
The Editor’s Pick on the homepage presents one book like the lead review in a literary magazine. It shows the newest book tagged editors-pick. Without one, it uses the newest featured book.
Featured books
Mark books as featured on Products (the star column). Their covers form the window display in the homepage hero. Up to five look best.