The publishing industry's bewilderment over why they are doing well amuses me greatly. Because, yes, a book can sell millions without being gutted. What's good about the book isn't the sex or really the story for that matter. Nor how it is written - the writing is more or less standard pulp fair. But the how the writer plays with it. If you've read fanfic, and almost everyone reading this journal has, you've seen it before. Text messages in the book. Times and dates. About five to six pages in the back showing everything from the guys point of view at the very end of the last book. Detailed description of every part of the romance. Things editors usually cut out, are left intact. The writer is playing, and we don't often see that in published stories, unfortunately. That is a fault of the publishing industry not writers. And with any luck this book might make the publishing industry rethink their tactics - trust readers more, and stop trying to make everything fit an established formula.
I love the way you put this. It's made me want to check the book out. I will read anything that plays with form like that.
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Date: 2012-05-12 05:50 pm (UTC)I love the way you put this. It's made me want to check the book out. I will read anything that plays with form like that.