“I have no clue if people will think the book is good or whether it will be a hit or a flop. But I do know that is a novel only I would have written, for better or worse. It is made of my tastes, memories, quirks, and obsessions. It is something I added to the world that would not have been added otherwise.”
Art in the Age of Slop: a fairly depressing read regarding the publishing industry but it ends on a strong note 😊
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154332279
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Continuing on to read the New Yorker article about the plagiarism case (sleep, what’s sleep?), it’s striking that 10-15 years ago, the plaintiff was receiving rejections along the lines of the work not being novel enough (vs the point in the first essay about the sameness of trend-chasing slop)
“I thought the writing, the storytelling, in this manuscript was simply wonderful,” one e-mail read, but “we are . . . looking for things that fall into a newer territory.” Another editor wrote,“While the writing is really great and Anna was a very likable heroine, I worry that there are not enough new and different elements to the story here that would set it apart from the rest of the novels in the competitive paranormal/romance/YA market.”
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