Fooled You

I love it when publishers fool readers into reading genre fiction.




Mwahahaha. You might think you just read a mainstream literary book, because of the classic art on the cover and the lovely sentences inside. Little do you know, you've just read a romance. Deny it if you like, and keep insisting that you don't read "that trash". Meanwhile you just did.




Mwahahaha. Did you know this is a werewolf novel? And it's actually horror, paranormal, and romance (three genres!) in one? Pretend to the folks on the subway that you're reading something artsy. Don't let on that you can't put it down.




Mwahahaha. We put this on the front shelves at Chapters and reviewed it in some big newspapers, just to fool you. It's really a murder mystery in which the protagonist solves the puzzle and tracks down the murderer - the same basic plot as all the books on the "mystery" shelves. We're just pretending you're buying a "literary" book when you pick this up.




Mwahahaha. Bet you didn't know this is "chick lit", did you? It has a chick in it, and it is written using language, so that makes it lit. You had no idea. You thought it was about, like, life and stuff, not one of those books. We even put a pair of shoes on the cover!

Keep it up, publishers. The more people who "only read literary stuff" who pick these up, the better. Just look innocent and pretend they're not reading genre. I promise I won't say anything..