davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

I can’t remember if I read anything by Heinlein back when I lived in a place with a library that had SF books. That was a long time ago. 

No science fiction to speak of at the small town library where I live in Utah, either. There are a few popular fantasy type novels and series, particularly in the kids' section. It's weird, because in the smallish town where I grew up, the local library had tons of sci-fi in both the adult and the children's sections of the library.

Maybe you have to do that to get published now.

I had a friend irl many years ago who got published (historical fiction) and in order to get his book out, they MADE this nice little old man from the country add grotesque adult scenes.  (Not even normal stuff, but like "illegal and needs to be wearing a straight jacket" stuff.)

I wonder how widespread that is.

One of my online contacts... he's only on Instagram now, where he posts cartoons he draws of cute little animals... is a former author of horror novels, most published in the 1980s and early 1990s.

This guy:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/32...thur_Smith

(That karate book on the list is not his.)

Bob shared via Flickr years ago, when I learned that he was a "former" horror writer, that he gave up the genre, even though it was reasonably lucrative, because the editors and publishers were insisting on increasing amounts of gore, cruelty, and other types of content he was not comfortable writing.

So yes, it would seem that the "publishing industry" insists on, or at least strongly encourages, the addition of certain content from authors. Which means, I suppose, that it is what the reading audience wants to see.

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