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jesus christ what is this why are you trying to make me puke ffs op
triggered
>>7397691
Oh we're getting pissed? Is that what we're doing?
>>7397700
GOD DAMN IT
>>7397745
I should write a shitty book like that and cash in on stupid people
How would one go about getting rubbish like this published?
>>7397733
>has both a 'bored me to death' and 'did not finish' shelf
what a loon
>>7397753
Would you kill people for money?
>>7397759
It depends who I'm set out to kill, how sure I am that I might get away with it, and on how much money we are talking about.
>>7397733
best review ever
>there will never be a YA retelling of Ulysses
>>7397835
But that's already a YA retelling of The Odyssey.
>>7397745
Why do all the covers look like housewife porn?
>>7397865
If they put like, a classy old painting on the front, then people will think it's too old and boring. If it's like, something tasteful and minimalistic, then people will think it's unremarkable.
They have to make it look like a dumb movie poster so it'll remind people of the pleb shit they experience in other mediums.
>>7397753
I'm also interested in this.
To me it seems like all the books are complete garbage, but publishers select some while discarding others.
It can't all be random, there has to be some system that determines which books are best at appealing to their target audience.
How can I write a book that's good at pushing a teenage girl's buttons?
How do I get it published?
>>7397753
You can't. Just as good satire comes from a deep love and respect for the source material, published YA comes from a place of sincerity which you will never be able to tap. If you try, people will be able to see your disdain for the genre, and you will not get published.
>>7397835
its called Ready player one. Its fun of low culture references to the 80s or whateevr
So folks, after I major in English and minor in classics what should I do?
>>7397877
>there has to be some system that determines which books are best at appealing to their target audience.
There is. They ask themselves, "Does this look like it may be adapted into a hit movie or tv series?"
Watch trashy tv shows the kids like, notice all the cliches they use, the character archetypes and sarcastic comedy + melodrama tone they have, and just write your book as a script version of that imagined tv show.
>>7397733
>life is too short to waste time reading books you dont like
Idk harley quinn has a point tho
>>7397733
>I know it was written in the seventeenth century but that's no excuse for my soggy knees.
Yikes
>>7397880
I'm good at lying and pretending, years of shitposting have prepared me for this pivatale moment in which I will write my masterpiece YA trash
>>7397889
I don't know much about television of that sort, can you recommend any that come to mind?
I have a younger sister that reads a lot of rubbish, I might ask her
>>7397733
>women
>>7397896
I think any show about superheros will do.
