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⌈ Secret Post #5128 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really blame female authors for this at all. I blame agents and publishers who saw LKH and Jim Butcher and to an extent Kim Harrison flying off the shelves and asked their already established authors to write LKH style stories. Or signed err... buffy fanfic writers.

I mean, good for these female authors. They're getting signed. They're getting paid. They're getting sales. And there are also plenty of male authors in the genre who are getting paid and getting sales.

My issue is it's either edging into Paranormal Romance with a not what it says she is on the tin MC or it's Noir with a Male Power Fantasy MC. And like nothing else? It's power fantasy either way. Surely it could have more breadth as a genre than that? And Cozy Urban Fantasy Mystery is worse b/c that's MOSTLY indie and has indie book problems. And I was so excited I mean, cozy mystery with fantasy and no. Sigh.

Right now, UF is dead on arrival. No one is signing new debuts for the genre as far as I know. So, I guess we have to wait until the next wave to get something new/interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think one of the problems with the genre is that the mystery side of it is usually really poorly done.

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SA

Right! Like, why would this person ,outside of being a detective of PI, be personally invested in solving this mystery? And there usually was no personal stakes involved. Or, the concept of the MC would be better served doing what the MC's actual job was. (Like, I picked up one series with a night nurse and I was like HOUSE but with MONSTERS. YES. And no. It wasn't House with Monsters. Very disappoint.)

Writing a mystery is HARD. Like, it has a certain set up and structure. A lot of authors don't know how to carry it off.

[(Anonymous)]

The Greta Van Helsing books are better at HOUSE BUT WITH MONSTERS - the main plot isn't great but there's a ton of background information about her job (human doctor to various supernatural beings) and things like 3D printing replacement bones for mummies and what antibiotics work on ghouls and how to do surgery on a vampire that are extremely interesting and cool.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yeah, agree with all of this (and I kind of feel the author might actually be more interested in the world-building than the plot? Apart from the first one, which I thought was a decent story line, it feels a bit as if it's there to provide an excuse for more stuff about her job...).

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for mentioning the Male Power Fantasy MC aspect. I dislike those more than the romance ones. At least in those there might be better-wriiten female characters.