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fandomsecrets2016-01-04 07:16 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2016-01-04 07:16 pm
[ SECRET POST #3288 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3288 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-05 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)As it is, people who like the BDSM and bad boy tropes, or the current thing, stepbrother romance (ew), or the billionaire stuff, they know they can find it. They look for it, buy it, read it, and support the industry. Which then gives them more.
But the people who want something different have gotten the message loud and clear YOU DON'T COUNT, so they stop looking and decide romance just isn't for them. And so there's no market. Or rather, the readers who want to read something else, and the writers who want to write it, aren't connecting in a meaningful way to allow the market to exist in a measurable way.
OTOH, if what you like ever does become popular? There will be a LOT of crap churned out to make money off it, and you'll still have to search hard to look for something that's actually a good read. But it will be there, if you keep looking.
I don't blame writers who write to market, or to fill the tropes that are making money. But as a reader, I don't want to read something that's just paint by numbers and not really written from the heart.
I think the answer is to keep looking even when you don't think there's anything out there, so that when someday there is, you can support it and enjoy it. I think I'll go check Amazon for some non-alpha male romance now.
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-06 12:30 am (UTC)(link)If you don't mind Regency, Georgette Heyer's "Cotillion" is a brilliant example of this.
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-06 05:22 am (UTC)(link)