[ SECRET POST #6209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6209 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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(Jason Derulo)



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #887.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (something about Crowley) - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's clear that Rowling's publishers made her choose a pen name because they thought a woman author would harm sales. It's also true that there were a number of very well-recognized established women's children / young adult fantasy authors who sold a lot of books under female names.

It's possible that having a pen name allowed JKR to go absolutely bugshit nuts in popularity and far outstrip the sales of any of her competitors (of any gender). But honestly I believe that her publishers were scared of nothing and Harry Potter would have been just as a hit if published under the name Joanna Rowling.

[(Anonymous)]

We don't know that. After all HP was rejected so many times that it was almost shelved. I also have noticed that perception of female writers changed. Before, if you were to rec a female scifi writer on a scifi discussion board you had to add "but it's not romance". Idk. Harry is a boy which might be enough to attract boys or, most likelly, boys's parents.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but also: JKR was a good writer and her work had more commercial appeal than any of the authors I mentioned. And she got a titanic marketing push.

So, it's hard to say which of those things made the difference for her popularity being so much greater than any of the other writers we're mentioning here.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh boy, you've done it now. Be prepared to be laughed at for calling JKR a good writer.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I am too lazy even to laugh at that. I've read tldr of the main secret give me some slack.