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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-08-04 08:05 pm

[ SECRET POST #1675 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1675 ⌋

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

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[British politics RPS]


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04. [repeat]


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[Batman/DC Comics]


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[FF13]


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[To The Ends Of The Earth]


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[Homestuck]


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[No. 6]


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[Legend of Korra]


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[HP]


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[Eastenders]


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[Return to Zork]


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[Lloyd Alexander, J. K. Rowling]


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[Hellraiser]


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[Isshi, Kagrra]


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[Captain America]


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[Poka Poka Felyne]


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[Stargate Atlantis]


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[captain America]


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[TVXQ]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 031 secrets from Secret Submission Post #239.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - 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.

Re: Well......

(Anonymous) 2011-08-05 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it was because of the lack of promotion. Back in 1991 when Wizard's Hall was published, we didn't have the kind of viral marketing that goes on today. Internet was still on dialup and at that it was barely affordable for your average consumer. Digital cable hadn't even taken off yet. HP came out in 1998, when there were more ways and more opportunities to promote the heck out of it, and it worked.

Re: Well......

[identity profile] ariseishirou.livejournal.com 2011-08-05 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. And a shame the former didn't come out earlier, then. Do you think it might also have had to do with setting it in a British boarding school, as well? Again I haven't read either, but from the wiki page Yolen is American, so I assume that wasn't the setting, which is exotic to American readers and nostalgic to many British ones.

Re: Well......

(Anonymous) 2011-08-05 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Both books were set in a similar way. There wasn't much talk of the structure of the actual castle itself in Wizard's Hall, because it was a pretty short book and Yolen was packing as much story and character development as she could into a tiny, tiny space, but it was still a boarding-school-like environment.