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'teen paranormal romance' is a real genre now!
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 19 Oct 2010, 18:10 ---Those of us who were fans of vampires, werewolves and other supernatural lore before 2005 wish Stephenie Meyer would get hit by a bus.
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I made a t-shirt which says "I Wanted to be a Vampire Before it was Cool", with a picture of Count Orlok snarling and saying a speech bubble which has a skull and crossbones in it.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 19 Oct 2010, 11:29 ---
Now?
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im reading that book for an 18th century sexualities class and that's like someone talking about sex & the city and me rolling my eyes and pulling out a copy of fanny hill
benji:
You know, I have trouble getting too worked up about all this. The vampire thing is bad, but I'm not sure it's any worse then the Gossip Girl novels and all of the cheap knockoffs there of that dominated the last several years of adolescent lit. There will always be good novels and bad novels, and often the bad novels will get more attention then the good. The real trouble here is that publishing companies have lost their spines. I'm sure plenty of people are writing books aimed at teenagers in which the characters are not vampires, nor werewolves, nor witches. But the publishers won't buy them because they aren't going to spend any money on anything that doesn't seem fairly certain to turn a profit. And that's the real issue here. It's almost impossible to get attention if you do something different, and if you do, it ends up just feeding the beast.
jimbunny:
The situation isn't all that dire. YA fiction has rarely been so popular, which means that the market for younger readers has expanded to include more than just the small, "bookworm" niche (i.e. girls) that was reading Judy Blume and Katherine Paterson before Harry Potter hit the scene. It's an oversimplification - sure, the publishing companies are making safer bets, but the book industry is perceived to be in crisis - yet part of this is just the phenomenon of impressionable non-readers discovering books in an atmosphere of desperate, sparkly advertising. It probably won't last forever, but it is exposing a sizable portion of the adolescent population to the written word who would have otherwise avoided it at all costs.
nekowafer:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 19 Oct 2010, 18:10 ---Those of us who were fans of vampires, werewolves and other supernatural lore before 2005 wish Stephenie Meyer would get hit by a bus.
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It's so, so true. I am SO FREAKING LUCKY I quit Hot Topic before the movies came out. I might have died.
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