Creating a New Music Genre

I've been searching for some time to find a descriptive label for the music I write.  Many songwriter-promoting websites ask me to pigeon-hole my style of music, or identify which well-known music it sounds like.  This doesn't sit well with me.  I enjoy exploring a wide variety of genres and coming up with my own, unique sound. My music sounds like me. (Scattered, all over the place, sometimes shallow, sometimes deep.)

I've been toying with a variety of labels.  Today I thought of Contemporary Romantic Adult Pop, but had to abandon that when I realized the acronym was CRAP!
 ;-)

Therefore, I am back at the beginning of my quest to answer those eternal questions:
"Who or what am I?" and "What am I doing here?"
If anyone out there knows, please feel free to share that information.  And if you have a genre label that you think fits, I'd be happy to give it a try.  I'm pretty sure it will include the word, 'alternative', but I'm not sure of much else.

THIS WEEK'S NEWS:
1. I've been invited to attend a concert that will include one of my songs, which will be recorded live.
2. I've been contacted by one of my music publishers, asking me to provide recordings of three of my published songs for their website.  (Does anyone out there have recordings of "Come With Me on Horses", "Requiem For the Innocent", or "Inventions and Machines"?)
3. I'm waiting to hear back from a publisher, a literary agent and a story-writing contest about my two newest books.  Sounds like the premise for a joke!

Have a safe and happy holiday.
Geoff

Success! (Sort of ...)

Eighty songwriters hungry for feedback; Dan Hill the star on a panel of five members of the Canadian Music Industry.  Each songwriter got to drop a one-song demo CD with lyric sheets into the draw.  Mine came up third!

Most people heard the same advice, (me included!)  Move the chorus to come right after the first verse.  With attention spans getting shorter and more music to surf at the click of a button, you have to grab the listener RIGHT AWAY!  So, "Single Life" now has the first chorus right after the first verse.  Yes, it works better for this purpose.  You can hear the results at: https://noisetrade.com/geoffbell

Dan Hill liked my lyrics, but suggested that I completely change the genre to a blues song. A BLUES song?  Really?  This definitely would radically alter the whole feeling and message!  But then, who am I to argue with Dan Hill, singer/songwriter extraordinaire for 30 years?  So, work has begun to re-imagine "Single Life" as a wailing blues song.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!