Sorry, everyone. I was just a little depressed yesterday looking at the mound of work I had to do...sometimes I just feel like I've been busting my ass for years in so many different areas for very little pay off. Then I read stuff online and it's like, some girl writes a novel in 10 days and makes a million bucks, some girl marries some guy who just happens to become a successful ____ in 2 years and now she's jetting off to Paris every week. I have X # of degrees, a near 4.0 average, a good work ethic and tons of ideas in my head and I can't pay my bills. So it's just one of those things, but whatever. That's life. I can accept that
INK you have to stop reading PM...you have to! You'll drive yourself nuts. Just keep forging ahead.
((Kellion))
Silver, interesting! I agree with Steve, no trend is forever. Again read the link I posted above, about the Doom Loop as theorized by chick lit author Sh$nn% Sw*nds&n. These things reach a saturation point when readers start to lose interest in the genre because there's just too much of it out there, and too much of it is sub par or unoriginal. Then pubs waft in and out of faux trends a bit, pubbing books that are doing okay but nothing special, then another sleeper hit strikes and the doom loop begins anew. That's why there's no point in predicting a new trend until that sleeper hit comes out...and we'll all know when that sleeper hit comes out because SH are always pretty much universally recognized. Again, so far we've only had three in YA: HP (though that's kind of children's to), T and THG. CC's TMI series doesn't quite work as it steadily grew into its popularity and a lot of its popularity was driven by the S&S's hype machine in recent years...I mean the amount of crazy hype b4 the release of TCP and this year's CoFA is staggering. I like the series okay, but I'm not sure if I'd consider it a part of the Holy Trinity. I think CC is more of an author brand name now.
ANYWAY, I for one would love to see some awesome Sci Fi (that's well written) but also more positive, adventerous. Not everything has to be dark and emo-fied just because it's YA! Think of Firefly or Star Wars or NuTrek. If I have to choose a trend, I'd love fun Sci Fi to be the next big thing, or at least I'd love to read some fun Sci Fi, but of course, I'd rather if it was well written.
Actually, I do have a SNI for that too, but DAMN IT ALL if this fucking MRP didn't suck up my entire summer. When I think of all my SNIs I've got
1) Contemporary
2) Magical Real/Contemporary
3) Sci Fi Space
4) Steampunk
5) Contemporary Fantasy/AU Fantasy
6) Urban Fantasy
....I know. Of course the list is prioritized in my head right now, but I just wish I had the time and the patience to sit down and knock these ideas out.
In other news I just got a list of the editor names from my agent...I asked for them last week based on some suggestions here. Honestly, I understand her reasoning for giving out just the imprint names...but knowing who's reading my work just makes me feel better about things, tbh. And I'm not a moron, so there's nothing to worry about in terms of me doing something stupid (I'm bad with names anyway, chances are I'll forget them in a month lol).