Dear Stephenie Meyer

[blamebrampton]

Please find an editor who cares for you.

No, I've not taken to reading Twilight, though if my H/D flist doesn't stop its dramas, then I will, and I will devote myself to Mary Sue het fic until people either cheer up or defriend me.

But to those dear friends who have been sending me messages of horror from the BD trenches, I feel your pain.

ETA: Thanks to trubbleclef's kind alerting, you can save yourself the actual horror by reading cleolinda's genius potted version here.

In happier YA fiction news, Martin Millar has a new book out called Lonely Werewolf Girl. I am only 1/5 of the way through its 500+ pages, but am loving it. He has an idiosyncratic style, but it is so much realer and so much more a part of the modern world than Myer could ever hope for. Hunt it down, and ignore the fact that his publishers have mediocre typeset designers on staff.

So far there is a werewolf battle that spans the Highlands of Scotland and the subcultures of London, a laudanum-addicted heroine who is being hunted by at least four sets of enemies, her fashion deisgner/sorceress/werewolf sister who is struggling to complete her next collection, two naive humans who were just hoping for an easy move and regular supply of takeaway pizza, and a transvestite would-be Thane of the werewolves who happens to be the older brother of the aforementioned two undead.

It's delicious.

ETA: I HAVE to get to Wellington. These shoes in apple green are calling to me!

Comments

[potteresque_ire]

Oh, those shoes are a darling. I would have gotten them too. :)

I've heard a little about the outburst on Breaking Dawn. I haven't read the series - the central theme has not struck me as appealing ... high school romance rarely rang true to me because I didn't have any and is bitter :D. I like HP because of the larger themes of war and social injustice; the romance is like icing on the cake, or broccoli beside the steak depends on which pairing one ships :) .. that said, I may still pick Twilight up and some point just to read for fun - I do feel bad for the readers who're disappointed by the ending, and I am thankful for JKR rounding up HP nicely, at least, to me :).

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I want to punch every journo who is calling Meyer the new JKR. While JKR occasionally annoyed me, she is a talented writer with internally consistent books and emotional journeys that make sense. I love her more in the lens of Stephenie!

And yes, first love = demented choices for most people, and it's bad practise to suggest otherwise! Grrrr!

[potteresque_ire]

I think it's just ploy to hype the Twilight Series ... now that they have tasted how much profit potential YA literature has, they want to duplicate it to push sells. The publishers benefit first, but then movie rights can be obtained and with the addition of some pretty stars the entertainment industry gets to share the wealth as well. I am always a little appalled by how WB is squeezing money out of HP. I know it's unavoidable, but it irks me, to be honest. I am very nerdy that way .

If you ask me, whenever Y is touted as the new X, Y is by default less than X or else she would have been a new standard to begin with. JKR wasn't really the new anyone, I think – I love her, even if her later work can improve with better editing and she talks a little too much. I am very much her fangirl :)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I do wish she had a better editor as well, but it is a dying art.