Comments | sharon_hate: Me ≥ Charlaine Harris, imho.

sharon_hate

Me ≥ Charlaine Harris, imho.

Jul 28, 2010 23:47

While the "Sookie Stackhouse" novels are incontrovertibly awful, some time around the latter half of Book 4 ("Dead To The World"), I gave up any of my previous attempts to stop reading. Is what I'm experiencing Literary Stockholm Syndrome? In order to survive, I needed to love my captor? I strongly suspect so ( Read more... )

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megyal July 29 2010, 14:56:21 UTC

You totally should email it to her; I especially love the part about HER CHEAP PAYLESS SHOES

sharon_hate August 1 2010, 06:49:04 UTC

Charlaine takes very special care to note, at all times, just how godawful everyone is dressed. "Cheap Payless shoes" is seriously the most in-character thing I have ever written, for anything.

matchsticks_p July 31 2010, 01:44:36 UTC

I "know a friend" who ghost-wrote a Harlequin romance once and got paid $150 for it. Not worth your time, I don't think. On the other hand, you do get paid for LOLz, so maybe.

sharon_hate August 1 2010, 06:47:46 UTC

Holy cow! That is absurd. Does that even cover actual hours of ~labor? I mean, I'm aware pulp and harlequin don't have the most intricate plots, but they must take a few days to at least type out. SURELY.

Idk.

matchsticks_p August 1 2010, 07:42:34 UTC

dude, idk how to break this to you, but even short stories accepted by legit ~literary magazines only pay about $50 per page (unless it's a hugely popular exception like The New Yorker, but good luck getting into something like that without being published before). It is not a lucrative pursuit, publishing stories. :(