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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twilight was a bestseller. It's ok not to like them. [/quote]

It's really not.

Full disclosure: I'm a writer who was recently dropped by her agent because three of my books just didn't sell. In her words, "They're lovely and well-written, but publishers are looking for stories with wider appeal."

For the past year, I've been on a hunt to figure out what makes the stories with wide appeal so successful - but because I don't personally enjoy, it's a struggle. I would like to find out what I'm missing.[/quote]

Fellow writer with three books that didn't sell well, a fourth that didn't get published, and a fifth I am still trying to finish before my angel of an agent tries to sell it - and I feel you. I used to be a journalist and I really figured out to cover my beat in a way that felt personally satisfying and also that readers ate up. I just cannot figure that out with fiction. I don't think I am above writing stuff that has mass appeal - I just think I maybe can't do it. I sometimes just want to give up because I find it so frustrating. I know there's a formula that works and I just can't get my brain and my fingers to do it.

Anyway - just to say: no one can read everything. Read what you like. Your bookish friends aren't reading everything either. But one way to force yourself to read more of the literary type bestsellers is to join a book club. That way you and your bookish friends WILL all be reading the same thing - and probably reading the same thing as lots of other bookish people as well.[/quote]

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