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⌈ Secret Post #3441 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Or your stuff just isn't as good as you think it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Or it's good but not popular, which happens all the time lbr.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT Yeah, exactly. It's less likely but it does happen. My published books have pro reviews that talk about how good the writing is. I'm lucky to sell fifty copies a month.

Sometimes the market just isn't available. I write non-tropey romance without gender roles and people just don't like that as much as the more tropey or more traditional stuff. It's no one's fault, though. People read and spend their money on things they like.

[(Anonymous)]

Out of curiosity, where are you selling? I've been looking for some decent romance books that aren't going to have me cringing away from the pages at the ridiculous 'romance' cliches.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT My publisher is overwhelmingly the more popular stuff so I'm not sure you'd find much. But I've heard good things about Stacia Kane if you're looking for het romance, and for LGBT stuff I'd recommend Riptide Publishing. They publish a lot of breaking the mould type romances.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I know this is waaay late and you probably aren't going to see this reply, but thank you for the recommendations!! :)

[(Anonymous)]

So by your measure "50 Shades of Grey" is a masterpiece.

Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good, either. :p

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone said that popular = good? Nope. Anon suggested that being good was key to being popular, but hasn't said that the reverse is true.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's at all true that being good is key to being popular, however, unless part of being good is tapping into what a market/demographic wants.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll admit I'm not half as good as the authors whose works I enjoy, but the stuff I slaved over is a hundred times better than the shit I used to write. I have a lot of good ideas, and while I don't always convey them perfectly, I know when I've hit bingo. The reason being, I can take pride in it regardless of the amount of attention it receives from the public.

So you can take your ugliness elsewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

You certainly don't have an ego problem, which is nice to see in a writer. But just cus you think your new stuff is better than your old shit...doesn't mean it that it isn't still shit compared to actual good writing...

[(Anonymous)]

"compared to actual good writing"

Somehow, I don't really trust your judgment on what is and isn't good.

[(Anonymous)]

That might be true, but popularity tends to be about giving an audience what it wants. Something that's well-written but doesn't use certain tropes or feature a certain pairing isn't going to be as popular as something that's tropey.