I have been spending some time thinking and digesting the feedback from a literary agent that I received a few weeks ago.
Your genre is dead. No one is buying it. No one is publishing it. It's been dead for a good long while now after being utterly flooded with books in that genre.
You know, I get it. There are a LOT of books in the genre. There are PLENTY of stories that are told and told and told in this and I have been having a lot of trouble thinking about the answer to "What about your book is different?"
Can I answer this question? Maybe. Maybe the difference I can give is something that people won't like though. Maybe sensible isn't what people want from their fiction.
But what she did say was that I can write. That what I write is easy to read and flows nicely.
So..................... there's nothing I can do with that, other than just keep doing it. Write all the stories and get better at writing overall.
Your genre is dead. No one is buying it. No one is publishing it. It's been dead for a good long while now after being utterly flooded with books in that genre.
You know, I get it. There are a LOT of books in the genre. There are PLENTY of stories that are told and told and told in this and I have been having a lot of trouble thinking about the answer to "What about your book is different?"
Can I answer this question? Maybe. Maybe the difference I can give is something that people won't like though. Maybe sensible isn't what people want from their fiction.
But what she did say was that I can write. That what I write is easy to read and flows nicely.
So..................... there's nothing I can do with that, other than just keep doing it. Write all the stories and get better at writing overall.
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