The YA Mafia
No, I’m not just blogging about the YA Mafia because I want people who google “mafia” to check out my blog. Really, if I was just trying to attract new followers, I’d make gratuitous references to Justin Bieber who most of my future MG readers are probably smitten with or Jimmer Fredette who some of my future tween readers are crushing on as we speak.
Anyway, as soon as I heard about the YA Mafia and read about what it means (because at first I thought it meant that mafia books were the next big thing in YA -- move over dystopian and vampires), I thought “What would Justin Bieber and Jimmer Fredette think about a group of children’s writers who put out career hits on aspiring children’s writers?”
Okay, seriously, I’ve always thought that book-bashing may backfire, but not in a the-YA-Mafia-will-put-out-a-hit-on-my-dream-of-being-a-published-author way. More in the if-someone-or-several-someones-say-a-book-sucks-bigtime-and-has-absolutely-no-redeeming-qualities-whatsoever, then it kind of makes people want to read it just to see if it really is that bad. Which means the bashed author will (probably) have hurt feelings and (possibly) have a bigger royalty check. And since the book-basher (presumably) didn’t want to help the sales of a book they thought sucked, it backfires on the book-basher, right? Thoughts? Anyone? Justin? Jimmer?
Anyway, as soon as I heard about the YA Mafia and read about what it means (because at first I thought it meant that mafia books were the next big thing in YA -- move over dystopian and vampires), I thought “What would Justin Bieber and Jimmer Fredette think about a group of children’s writers who put out career hits on aspiring children’s writers?”
Okay, seriously, I’ve always thought that book-bashing may backfire, but not in a the-YA-Mafia-will-put-out-a-hit-on-my-dream-of-being-a-published-author way. More in the if-someone-or-several-someones-say-a-book-sucks-bigtime-and-has-absolutely-no-redeeming-qualities-whatsoever, then it kind of makes people want to read it just to see if it really is that bad. Which means the bashed author will (probably) have hurt feelings and (possibly) have a bigger royalty check. And since the book-basher (presumably) didn’t want to help the sales of a book they thought sucked, it backfires on the book-basher, right? Thoughts? Anyone? Justin? Jimmer?