But publishers were going after similiar books before AB started sliding downhill. You could go so far as to say that the genre was thrown into the spotlight by AB's popularity, but that's not really the same as what LKH is trying to claim.
Basically, one publisher looked and saw what was going on and said "Hey, urban fantasy is coming back, let's jump on the bandwagon and see if we can make some money" and then a bunch of others started doing it, too.
After Christine Feehan got popular, a rash (and I DO mean rash) of paranormal romances involving vampires descended upon the unsuspecting public.
After Harry Potter got really popular, publishers began scooping up every "kids with magic" series under the sun.
Doesn't mean they weren't there before, that they weren't good before, or that they had not had popularity before. Just that as the market grows bigger, the exploitation of it does too.
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Date: 2007-05-29 03:21 am (UTC)But publishers were going after similiar books before AB started sliding downhill. You could go so far as to say that the genre was thrown into the spotlight by AB's popularity, but that's not really the same as what LKH is trying to claim.
Basically, one publisher looked and saw what was going on and said "Hey, urban fantasy is coming back, let's jump on the bandwagon and see if we can make some money" and then a bunch of others started doing it, too.
After Christine Feehan got popular, a rash (and I DO mean rash) of paranormal romances involving vampires descended upon the unsuspecting public.
After Harry Potter got really popular, publishers began scooping up every "kids with magic" series under the sun.
Doesn't mean they weren't there before, that they weren't good before, or that they had not had popularity before. Just that as the market grows bigger, the exploitation of it does too.