{"id":1573,"date":"2012-01-11T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:22:07","slug":"writers-and-book-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/writers-and-book-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers and book trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/lenacoakley.com\">Lena Coakley<\/a> asked me to stop by her blog today to talk about writers and book trends.  It&#8217;s a topic I was happy to discuss, because I&#8217;ve seen the affects of trends throughout my writing career.  The post begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hang out in writerly circles for very long, and you\u2019ll hear conversation turn toward trends. What genres and topics are publishers scrambling to get more of? Which are almost impossible to sell? Should you try to match your writing to what\u2019s currently hot, or veer off in a new direction?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard not to be tempted by the idea that there are strategies (beyond simply writing well) that will make it easier to get your book published. And authors don\u2019t agree on the answer. Some attribute their success to paying attention to what\u2019s selling and writing the sort of books publishers have shown they want. Others say that by the time you notice a trend, it\u2019s likely too late to join in before the market\u2019s saturated, so you\u2019re just wasting your time.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think there is a right answer. Opinions are divided because experiences are divided. I\u2019ve seen for myself that trends can both help and hurt your chances of getting published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To find out how trends helped and hurt my books, and how I approach writing to trends now, read the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/lenacoakley.com\/2012\/01\/the-truth-about-trends-a-guest-post-by-megan-crewe\/\">The Truth about Trends<\/a> at Lena&#8217;s blog.  I&#8217;d love to hear your own experiences, there or here, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Lena Coakley asked me to stop by her blog today to talk about writers and book trends. It&#8217;s a topic I was happy to discuss, because I&#8217;ve seen the affects of trends throughout my writing career. The post begins: &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/writers-and-book-trends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}