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16: Rant about anything book related



Two trends that I cannot stand right now in publishing:
1. Making books into comic books. Just to cash in. GUESS WHAT - Percy Jackson sold FINE in book form! They made a movie out of it! We don't need THE EXACT SAME STORY told in comic book form. I mean, if it was like the WARRIORS series where the comics were separate stories, I could deal with it, but just taking books and making them comics, with no real style, just an obvious cash-in, blah.

2. "Young Reader Editions" that are the same damn size as the adult book. Look, if you're in middle/high school and want to read 'Unbroken', just read 'Unbroken'. If you're interested in Malala, read her autobiography, not the "sanitized" version that is the "young reader's edition". Either your kid is ready for this, interested in this, or they are not.

The ABSOLUTE WORST is when they make a young reader's edition, a picture book edition and then a comic book. (okay that last one hasn't happened yet, but give it time!)

Anyone else have any book/publishing trends that are pet peeves at the moment?

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Date: 2016-06-28 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesjojo.livejournal.com
The book I am supposed to read for my book club. It has every cliche about self-published books in spades. Pure vanity press from run-on paragraphs introducing each new character with their entire biography to the main character staring in the mirror and describing his twinkling eyes and cleft chin.

This isn't a new trend - and self publishing is really attracting some decent writers - just vanity publishing by a local doctor who is writing a police procedural knowing nothing about police. And a streak of hate-filled misogyny from the mutilated corpses of women, to the complete absence of any woman who isn't a fat sow in a stinky trailer shoving chocolate in her mouth.

Now I have to go to my book club and temper my venting...it will be hard.

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