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shadowkatOh come on...they sent two covers of Entertainment Weekly out this week. The new stand cover was "Katniss Forever",
while the Subscriber Cover was "Fifty Shades of Grey", which EW proceeds to pat themselves on the back for ...because they are promoting a "book"???? And while yes, I get, that women need spicy fantasy....(I actually got a better fic going on in my head at the moment. ) I just don't understand. Of all the books published this year, including the marvelous The Fault in Our Stars, why is this one or Twilight...which are basically pulp novels written for an audience with a third grade reading level. Fault in Our Stars - a YA novel and The Hunger Games also a YA novel, as well as The Night Circus another YA...have better vocabulary and sentence structure. This? This gets the front cover? And I'm sorry who is talking about it? I never heard of it until EW brought it up. Yes, shocking, but life exists outside of the marketing and entertainment industry.
[And oh god, I hope I haven't offended any Twilight or Shades fans. People I watch daytime soaps and have read more bad books than I can count, trust me, I'm not judging you. I'm judging the frigging media and Entertainment Weekly for over-promoting bargain basement pulp, which is and should remain little more than a secret guilty pleasure. It would be like putting General Hospital on the cover. Or Passions. I mean Come on. (although I think they actually did that too...once upon a time. Entertainment magazines aren't exactly known for the highbrow taste...)]
What's going on with LJ? Took me forever to figure out how to log in. Also couldn't post an icon. Very weird.
Better today. But woman at work who has ceiliac disease and is eating glutens constantly is confusing me.
while the Subscriber Cover was "Fifty Shades of Grey", which EW proceeds to pat themselves on the back for ...because they are promoting a "book"???? And while yes, I get, that women need spicy fantasy....(I actually got a better fic going on in my head at the moment. ) I just don't understand. Of all the books published this year, including the marvelous The Fault in Our Stars, why is this one or Twilight...which are basically pulp novels written for an audience with a third grade reading level. Fault in Our Stars - a YA novel and The Hunger Games also a YA novel, as well as The Night Circus another YA...have better vocabulary and sentence structure. This? This gets the front cover? And I'm sorry who is talking about it? I never heard of it until EW brought it up. Yes, shocking, but life exists outside of the marketing and entertainment industry.
[And oh god, I hope I haven't offended any Twilight or Shades fans. People I watch daytime soaps and have read more bad books than I can count, trust me, I'm not judging you. I'm judging the frigging media and Entertainment Weekly for over-promoting bargain basement pulp, which is and should remain little more than a secret guilty pleasure. It would be like putting General Hospital on the cover. Or Passions. I mean Come on. (although I think they actually did that too...once upon a time. Entertainment magazines aren't exactly known for the highbrow taste...)]
What's going on with LJ? Took me forever to figure out how to log in. Also couldn't post an icon. Very weird.
Better today. But woman at work who has ceiliac disease and is eating glutens constantly is confusing me.
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Date: 2012-03-31 01:31 pm (UTC)"I'm a former television executive - I was head of production for a small independent production company, doing contracts and budgets. And I've been a production executive for the BBC for eight years. I'm now - full time- someone who gets carted around and thrown in front of people.
[That's the problem with selling your soul to evil marketing people, you get carted around and thrown in front of people.]
Her dream when majoring in history at university was to become an accountant.
[This actually explains a lot when you think about it.]
Hubby writes TV scripts. Lives in West London with their two sons, 15 and 17. And she's in her mid-late 40s.
I'm very publicity-shy," she says. "It's hard. All that. I didn't expect this. I'm rather overweight and it's a bit of a struggle."
Aren't we all? Honey, you have a hubby, two kids, a successful career, and a novel that evil marketing people have decided is the best thing ever. Stop whining! Plus, you can still keep your private life, private. Stephanie Meyer is jealous.
Still with no glam cosmetic enhancements and a nice cascading mop of dark hair, she carries the stray, appealing Every-woman extra pounds of modern forty-something working motherhood with verve.
Asked what she'd be doing if she were at home rather than blinking in the California sunshine, she doesn't hesitate: "Smoking, probably, all the interesting people smoke."
[And die of lung cancer, lymphoma, ephemsema, throat cancer, but let's not be a downer? Oh and give everyone who has the ill luck of living with them or being near them all the time, allergies. But hey, interesting! Remind me to tell my brother this the next time he lights up.]