For Authors: July 28, 2010 Issue [#3878]
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 This week: Vampires and Werewolves, Oh My!
  Edited by: Crys-not really here Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Hello! My name is Crys-not really here Author IconMail Icon. I will be your guest editor for the For Authors newsletter this week. I love writing this newsletter because it allows me to share great writing tips and my personal thoughts on a variety of writing-related subjects.


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Letter from the editor

Many readers have a genre they would not be caught dead reading. Some have a prejudice against Erotica, or don’t understand Sci-Fi. Others consider Literary Fiction boring or cringe at Romance novels. I consider myself pretty open to anything, but I have one aversion: vampires.

Just today I read my very first vampire story ever, as a favor for a friend who is preparing it for an anthology. It was a well-written story (his stuff usually is, and he has a fantastic publication record to prove it), but I just couldn’t get over the fact that I was reading about a female blood-sucking vampire. I’ve always had this feeling (despite never reading one) that vampire stories were cheesy and uninteresting. With the success of Twilight, and all of the subsequent vampire books aimed at a teen market, you may be thinking that I’ve finally decided to give them a try. Maybe I’ll even write one myself, get a best seller for sure?

Not a chance. The success of Twilight has only made me avoid vampires even more. I’m not one to jump on the trend bandwagon; I only recently started reading the Harry Potter series because when they first came out, I refused to follow the crowd. I was sure that “popular” didn’t necessarily equal “well-written, high-quality, engaging storyline.” Well, I was wrong about that one, but I’m pretty sure I’m not wrong about Twilight. Nothing about the series interests me, not even the studly sparkling vampire.

We as writers need to make the trends, not follow them. Stephenie Meyers created the vampire teen novel trend with Twilight. Who knows how long that will last before the next big thing comes along? There are probably a thousand authors out there writing vampire novels, and by time they’re complete, the trend will have died down and no publisher will be interested in them anymore. I’m not about to have a dead vampire novel sitting on my desk.

For those of us who want to experiment with vampires or werewolves or Sci Fi or any other genre one can think of, there are still a gazillion anthologies and journals out there looking for such things. We’re free to experiment in any genre we want and will probably find someone to publish it. We may even make a little money off it. We’ll never be Stephenie Meyers, but does the world need another Stephenie Meyers? No, I think the world needs ME and YOU and our individuality.

I'm interested in knowing what genres you don't enjoy. Why do you refuse to read or write in that genre? Use the feedback area bellow and your comments could appear in my next For Authors Newsletter.


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Ask & Answer

Thanks to everyone who wrote in after my last For Authors Newsletter about Groups on WDC!

Hi Crys! Thanks for the great links for all those groups. I'd be nowhere with my writing if I hadn't joined groups here on WDC. They're a great way to meet like-minded people for fun or for getting great advice. Thanks for pointing them out. *Smile* -- LJPC - the tortoise Author IconMail Icon

I just enjoy these newsletters, as they show me many fantastic stories that I enjoy. *Bigsmile* - BIG BAD WOLF Feeling Thankful Author IconMail Icon

is there a group for those who love Classics? (er... I mean the Traditional/anti-post-modernist types of writers)- sysiongkerz

I'm not sure. If anyone knows of such a group, could you write into the newsletter, please?


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