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I thought the advice was "just write smut", is it "just write YA" now?
There goes my plan of writing Micro-Smut scenes and selling them for 99p self published. What have I been reading all this literature for as research?! I don't even like smut!
Just write smut for young adults.
I’d use a pseudonym though.
That crossover is pretty much already saturated. The most popular example that comes to mind is ACOTAR.
the real money is in sci-fi
It was my understanding that romance, as an umbrella, was the best seller of books.
The reason "just write smut" was the advice given to struggling authors was because the demand was there to make it a best selling genre, but people didn't typically write it. Now it's fairly saturated so the advice is less relevant.
Romantasy has been thriving in recent years but you have to market yourself to stand out. It's also been weird in that increasingly self publishing has been a better deal for authors of the genre.
Personally I'd love to get into reading it but I hear there isn't much good f/f content in the genre.
The last series I finished was "Kingdom of immortal lovers" by Ruby Roe. Which is some f/f BDSM vampire smut.
I think Ruby Roe is mainly f/f, but the above was more smut than fantasy. That said, I don't go out of my way to read romance, so I really wouldn't know.
I can't recommend, or not recommend the series though, it wasn't written for me. Just here to say Ruby exists for f/f fantasy smut.
Kurt Vonnegut said there’s a lot of easy money in sci-fi, but no respect, i tell ya
Romantasy exists to solve this problem
Is it like Greektasy, only a bit further west, or something else entirely?
They're totally different.
Greektasy has steamy romance with inconveniently attractive brooding werewolf-pire enemies-to-lovers plotlines, whereas Romantasy has the same thing with a different name.
Omegaverse
Joke's on me, I don't like romantasy either. I like my fiction to be philosophy disguised as magic and spaceships.
Romance is what sells though, and I'm glad something sells to keep authors around writing my pensive wankery.
I did toy with the idea of writing the chapter long smut pieces I see around. Then decided I would have to devote more time than I want to devote to smut to do it right and not scam people.