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Its was a bad day when I learned about the existence of the extreme horror genre.
It never fails, when I'm Ubering and someone starts talking about reading, I go down some of my recent non fictions, cause I falsely assume more people read those than my various 40k and other esoteric fantasy interests. Without missing a beat they will instantly start saying names of authors I've never heard of before. I'll look them up later and it's always some Y.A. it is really incredible how popular it is amongst soooo many people that aren't really that young. I get it though, it's comfort food, let people enjoy whatever makes them happy.
Young Adult novels I think.
You are correct.
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!
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.
Just write smut for young adults.
I’d use a pseudonym though.
Romantasy exists to solve this problem
Is it like Greektasy, only a bit further west, or something else entirely?
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.
Ah yes... The Yark Arts. 😌
Yankovic, Al
Romantasy, these days...