#the best you can hope for is a bunch of morally righteous bigots on twitter harassing you

[asleepinawell]

i know book sales pitches that follow the pattern "it's X meets Y" (like it's the mcu meets game of thrones) have been shown as being a successful way to increase sales by some suspect data points but the visceral hatred this gimmick evokes in me every time does the opposite of make me click the purchase button. not only are X and Y usually things I don't want more of, but they also usually have nothing in common with the book

#the safely americanized covers that lack any personality are up there too #when i think about getting published i ask myself if I'm willing to subject my writing to the horrors of the capitalist publishing world #and then i think about the number of books i may have missed because the attempts to market them made them sound like raw garbage #and the vast quantity of fantastic writing that never gets published because it isn't deemed marketable #and the fact that even if you do the impossible and publish a book that isn't a YA romance #the best you can hope for is a bunch of morally righteous bigots on twitter harassing you #like is it really worth all that to get your writing to the people you want to share it with #and will the experience make you associate all the bad shit with your writing #personal #mp #this is not a criticism of writers who have to promote their work with those dumb comparisons btw #it's a criticism of the entire system