Post by account_disabled on Nov 26, 2023 7:08:08 GMT
We know that many readers don't want those things and we prefer to target them, before they stop reading completely out of disgust. Thus, an editorial choice made just to be able to look at myself in the mirror without shame (apart from my appearance in general, of course! ^_^). What else don't we want? Stories that not only don't have a solid "what if" fantasy, but aren't even fantasy fiction at all! Let's take the classic Paranormal Romance a la Twilight : is it fantasy fiction mixed with Pink or the opposite? the fantastic aspect, the vampire, is trivialized, almost reduced to a burden (deprived of the darkest aspects... and it even sparkles in the sun!). The real story behind it is a Rosa.
On the other hand, on a pure marketing level, the aim was to demonstrate that many girls didn't read romance because it had a bad reputation (the stuff that dissatisfied housewives read or other clichés), not because they wouldn't have liked it if they had tried it. ! And here's the brilliant idea of putting vampires in there to attract them and... bingo! Pink, as Phone Number Data long as it is dressed up in the right way to overcome prejudices, works! We make fantastic fiction: we don't want works that aren't. Would we take a mainstream story of adventure and medieval-like plots into an alternate world where the fantasy elements are secondary, where they are just decoration to justify the Fantasy label and sell to those readers too? I'm a fan of George Martin's series, but I wouldn't bring something similar, so little Fantasy (especially in the first books, then I can't judge for those not yet published), if proposed to Vaporteppa.
Better for Vaporteppa is a grand vision of the nature of magic, like the one Celia Friedman gave us with Knight of the Black Sun. That is Fantasy in which the story cannot exist without the "What if": if by removing the "What if" (the fantasy or science fiction elements) it is enough just to fix something here and there and the story remains intact and functioning, it means that no it was deeply based on being Fantasy or Science Fiction, it was another genre. Changing Hamlet into an elf and Fortinbras into a fairy and otherwise leaving everything as it is, will not make Hamlet a Fantasy... just as it didn't change genre just because the costumes were nineteenth-century and not medieval in Kenneth Branagh's version (a film that I adore , even just for the fact of being a complete Hamlet , almost 4 hours!).
On the other hand, on a pure marketing level, the aim was to demonstrate that many girls didn't read romance because it had a bad reputation (the stuff that dissatisfied housewives read or other clichés), not because they wouldn't have liked it if they had tried it. ! And here's the brilliant idea of putting vampires in there to attract them and... bingo! Pink, as Phone Number Data long as it is dressed up in the right way to overcome prejudices, works! We make fantastic fiction: we don't want works that aren't. Would we take a mainstream story of adventure and medieval-like plots into an alternate world where the fantasy elements are secondary, where they are just decoration to justify the Fantasy label and sell to those readers too? I'm a fan of George Martin's series, but I wouldn't bring something similar, so little Fantasy (especially in the first books, then I can't judge for those not yet published), if proposed to Vaporteppa.
Better for Vaporteppa is a grand vision of the nature of magic, like the one Celia Friedman gave us with Knight of the Black Sun. That is Fantasy in which the story cannot exist without the "What if": if by removing the "What if" (the fantasy or science fiction elements) it is enough just to fix something here and there and the story remains intact and functioning, it means that no it was deeply based on being Fantasy or Science Fiction, it was another genre. Changing Hamlet into an elf and Fortinbras into a fairy and otherwise leaving everything as it is, will not make Hamlet a Fantasy... just as it didn't change genre just because the costumes were nineteenth-century and not medieval in Kenneth Branagh's version (a film that I adore , even just for the fact of being a complete Hamlet , almost 4 hours!).