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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
Snowleopard:
I've heard it said that sometimes it's an idea's time and it's just out there in the either so to speak.
I had heard that years ago Harlan Ellison had written a story called the Bleeding Stones - where the
gargoyles in Paris come alive. He hadn't yet published it but was at the Clarion Writer's workshop when this kid comes in with a story that's almost the exact replica of Harlans. He didn't know Harlan, computers weren't a big thing then so there was no way he could have found the idea online or done any hacking.
Harlan was honest about the matter and I forget if he gave the kid credit but he did the right thing by the
kid because Harlan could NOT now prove that he'd had that idea before the kid.
(Same thing JB tries to avoid on the Forum with our ideas.)
Shecky:
Personally, I imagine it's most likely the result of something out there pop-culture-wise at that time that's triggering the formation of certain ideas.
Yeratel:
Pat Elrod was griping on FB the other day that she needed to come up with a new genre that would put her in the J.K. Rowling class of best-sellerdom, and that vampires and wizards seemed to be overdone. I suggested to her that the Young Adult market seems to be where the money is, and judging by recent trends, maybe she should try a series about angsty teenage zombies. She was not enthused.
Snowleopard:
Vampires are done as a genre and zombies are headed that way.
You're a braver person than I would be.
"Angsty teen age zombies!!" ::) ::)
Marie August:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 17, 2012, 03:25:28 AM ---
I could very well be getting my covers mixed up. But with what the book covers said I was still under the impression that Mercy's shifters were not wolves. I'll try to find the first one and see if I can remember why.
There was one somewhere that has a lion on the cover. Might be Kitty. The head lion in the pride is a romantically interest of the MC.
--- End quote ---
There is no Lion in the Mercy series. But there are shifters of different sorts. Mercy herself shifts into a coyote, and in the most recent Mercy Book "River Marked" she does meet some shifters who can turn into other things. Like a bird.
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