tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post2240674083936164845..comments2024-03-28T18:54:13.800-04:00Comments on alien romances: Writing Output and Dumb AliensRowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-19706325944278610212009-11-19T12:57:36.258-05:002009-11-19T12:57:36.258-05:00Joe:
Oh, yeah, I know what you mean by "don&...Joe:<br /><br />Oh, yeah, I know what you mean by "don't like horror."<br /><br />But you know what? Any genre that gets popular becomes the vehicle for carrying the unpopular stuff to the audience that prefers that. <br /><br />You just have to ignore the main genre and watch for the stuff you want. I learned to do that with Vampire novels that were published with the Horror label, but were actually not horror, when all the editors thought any Vampire in a story made it horror. <br /><br />Minority tastes have to endure what the majority wants in order to get what the minority wants.<br /><br />Then times change and the minority becomes the majority. We're in a shift right now, which I discussed a little in my post of Nov 17 here on this blog. <br /><br />I'm in two forum discussions, one on Amazon in the Romance community and one on LinkedIn in the Group called BOOK PUBLISHING PROFESSIONALS.<br /><br />Both are discussing the drastic shifts in publishing due to the advent of ebooks and the possibility of self-publishing. And the explosion of pirating. And how innocent people treating ebooks as if they were hardcopy that they owned (trading, selling, giving away copies) are challenging the copyright laws.<br /><br />It's Art and Artists vs. Business Model.<br /><br />And that's what causes the non-horror payload to be wrapped in a horror-genre plot to make it to market. <br /><br />People think of the entertainment industry as a non-essential luxury, but the furor and acrimony triggered by these forum discussions seem to have the flavor of people defending their right to food-clothing-shelter and real necessities like air and water. <br /><br />So look for the entire genre-label meaningfulness to take a drastic shift in the next few years. <br /><br />Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br />http://jacquelinelichtenberg.comJacqueline Lichtenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01613040740264804278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-30356086713809192712009-11-19T12:04:11.781-05:002009-11-19T12:04:11.781-05:00Heh. Nice deconstruction of The Fourth Kind. I won...Heh. Nice deconstruction of <i>The Fourth Kind.</i> I won't be seeing this because I don't like horror, but those are good points about the tropes of alien abduction stories in general.José Iriartehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653811568201804995noreply@blogger.com