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Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

So what is the Bad Fantasy of today? Is it all those formulaic YA trilogies? I feel like the bad fantasy of my childhood (I am 35) was more for a male audience and now it's more for a female audience. Do I have any facts to back this up? Absolutely not.

I feel like today's bad fantasy are those god awful fairy romance books. A Court of Thorn and Shadows and its sequels. I've never read them and, barring something terrible going wrong in my life, I never will, but I heard they're stupid and bad.

They also kicked off the naming trend in fiction of Thing of Thing and Thing, which is another sure-fire sign of a bad novel. (See also any thriller with Wife/Woman/Girl in the title.)

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Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry
Does best selling author Brandy Sandy at any point justify why he needs a kickstarter to publish his new books?

Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

Tunicate posted:

Because amazon controls 85% of book sales (and through audible and kindle, an even bigger fraction of audiobook and ebook sales). In the past Amazon has played hardball in negotiations by shutting off all sales from a given publisher for a month.

So having kickstarter as an alternative sales channel makes business sense (in addition to kickstarter taking 10% less of the gross price as fees compared to Amazon)

Let me rephrase: why is extremely popular and well-established author Brandy Sandy self-publishing in the first place?

Genuine question, btw. I just don't understand this at all, although I guess it raised $41m.

Sisal Two-Step fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Apr 4, 2022

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