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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder about this, because the books cranked out by big publishers are sometimes (often) completely awful. I guess my tastes are not aligned with the public. The young adult section particularly is full of trash. [/quote] It's not necessarily about good, it's about what they think can sell.[/quote] In commercial fiction, it's primarily about being able to tell a good story that has great pacing and keeps readers wanting to know what happens next. Beautiful prose is secondary to storytelling. There aren't that many literary novels that do that well. The ones that do break out frequently tell a great story beautifully.[/quote]
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