Cut out the middle man
May. 6th, 2011 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficJust had a great/perverse idea for a YA novel: Put the heroine in an abusive relationship.
Female lead: La la 70% of all YA novels...
Male lead: Uh... I don't have a romantic interest in you because I am way too busy with my own mysterious secretiveness, but you can do better. Like, if you bought a puppy? That's doing better.
Female lead: But he loves me so much he can't control himself!
Male lead: Lady, due to the paranormal genre in which all YA novels must be set, I literally cannot control my emotions and I'm still doing better than that guy. Now if you'll excuse me, QUANTUM PHYSICS.
...maybe it'll sell if there's a picture of a pasty British guy on the cover?
Female lead: La la 70% of all YA novels...
Male lead: Uh... I don't have a romantic interest in you because I am way too busy with my own mysterious secretiveness, but you can do better. Like, if you bought a puppy? That's doing better.
Female lead: But he loves me so much he can't control himself!
Male lead: Lady, due to the paranormal genre in which all YA novels must be set, I literally cannot control my emotions and I'm still doing better than that guy. Now if you'll excuse me, QUANTUM PHYSICS.
...maybe it'll sell if there's a picture of a pasty British guy on the cover?
