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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
OZ:
I think it's a matter of finding good, original books rather than the genre or sub-genre they fall into. If the next great series is steam punk (for instance) then there will probably be a flood of writers writing steam punk. A few will probably write good stories. A few more will probably create well written stories that while not particularly original have niche appeal and sell well. Some will be trying to ride the wave but many will just be readers that write what they enjoy reading. I don't think it is so much the genre as it is the successful writers that create the wave. Whether it's Robert E Howard or HP Lovecraft, Laurell K Hamilton or J Rowling, good stories influence good (and bad) writers and cause similar stories to be written.
Snowleopard:
In Hollywood the line is: Nobody wants to be first, everybody wants to be second.
No one wants to take a risk they want to ride the tails of something that's already successful.
Witness all the remake movies or sequels. ::) ::)
Nickeris86:
For me most Urban Fantasy novels are not very well written, there are exceptions of course but the majority that I have done are all basically the exact same story told over and over with different characters.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Dresdenus Prime on January 31, 2012, 01:52:03 PM ---But it's certainly something to think about for those of us who are currently hoping to publish a book in this genre. What do you all think? :o
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Doesn't matter to me. I'm writing what I want, not to trends.
Enjorous:
To me one of the points that I don't like about a lot of UF is the focus on the main character always being a PI. There are a few exceptions (Dresden being a main one), but they seem often times to be too formulaic. Now I think that UF is far from dead, I think it just needs a little freshening up, very similar to what people like Rothfuss, Lynch, and Sanderson are doing with epic fantasy. There's a lot of room, imo, for it to grow is people were willing to take it there.
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