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By: R M Haskell

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This is a belated response to an (in an internet timeframe) ancient post, but I couldn’t pass it up.

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Katherine Hyde wrote: I conclude that fantasy is a lot of fun to write–after all, you don’t have to do research or worry about verisimilitude…
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This is incorrect, and a frustrating fallacy to those of us who have done the hundreds of hours of research necessary to plausibly fabricate an entire world. “Plausibly” is the material point here.

Is your world’s technological development feasible and consistent? What are the appropriate governmental structures, construction methods, weather patterns, agriculture, sources of fuel, food, marketable goods? How do you deal with travel? What do you know about politics in a (for example) feudal society? What about religion, social norms and mores? All of these things are interrelated, must be consistent with one another, and require immense amounts of research.

Contemporary fiction requires a working knowledge of the world we have been learning since birth. While some might argue that the research required of fantasy writers is offset by the fact that we can “simply make things up”, unfortunately, we can’t just whip things out willy-nilly and expect a (statistically speaking) highly knowledgeable readership to swallow it whole.

I would venture to say that the only genres that require more in-depth research and knowledge at hand than fantasy are historical fiction, and hard sci-fi.

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By: pixydust

pixydust — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0000

>Very interesting stats. Thanks for doing all that, Rachelle! I was an avid reader of spec-fic long before I was a writer of it. It seems spec-fic has always had a bit of a "back seat" in the pub world. That's life. 😉 I considered writing "normal" books during a desperate time when I was sure I'd never be published…lol. But monsters and faeries kept popping up in the stories…very annoying.

Pesky faeries…

By: Nairam

Nairam — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:58:56 +0000

>Wow, I had no idea. I'm so used to be surrounded by fantasy-loving and writing young authors, I guess I assumed that it was what is selling…that's encouraging, because I can't write fantasy to save my life. Well, maybe for that. But I can't write GOOD fantasy.

By: Hilarey Johnson

Hilarey Johnson — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:27:25 +0000

>Like many of the others, I am here for the great insight and advice.

I wonder if the discrepancy has something to do with personalities of romance readers vs sci fi readers.

A romance reader doesn't usually care that the book is a slight variation of a story they've already heard. They are in it for the temporal distraction.

Sci-fi readers seem to want to study their books and pseudo-occupy the world. (How many people have learned the Star Trek or LOTR Elf languages) I had a ten year old that complained about the fact that it was impossible to have a purple light saber because the blah blah cave only had blue and green...

Sci-fi/fantasy people seem to be more technical and analytical and therefore more critical of books they read.

By: Shannon Wheeler

Shannon Wheeler — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:24:02 +0000

>I'd be interested in hearing the numbers on Christian non-fiction, which is where my interest in writing lies.

It's been really interesting to see what your poll results are and hear others' feedback.
Thanks for keeping us all informed!

By: Marleen Gagnon

Marleen Gagnon — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:49:54 +0000

>I write historical romance and no it's not regency. I'm in love with the old west. I had people a few years back almost laugh and say no one was reading that stuff. Today they're interested. So I say Si-fi/fantasy keep writing. The more you write the better you get. If you're interested enough to write it there are people out there who are interested to read it.

By: Dave Freer

Dave Freer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:39:06 +0000

>:-)As one of those sales records (I have 13 sf/fantasy books published, 2 in press and and another 5 on contract) I found this intresting… but misleading. My other hat, before I blundered into writing was a fisheries scientist, which means stats with a little biology and a lot of fantasy. Look, the first trouble is your sample is self-selected and small. It's more likely that wanna-be writers within a genre will link (and thus advertise) your blog to others within the same genre. There are a bunch of other factors that I could explain, but really, this is not something you reach any conclusion on. It's of the level of validity of an editor using bookscan to decide if a book is worth buying fom an author (GIGO). So there is a substantial chance that what you're seeing is sampling error. Secondly: to make a valid comparison of genre by genre sales you need a far bigger sample set, and establish whether 1) this is consistant, 2)you are actually comparing noob sales with noob sales. I could go on but seriously, this is not a survey you should base your assessments on :-).

By: catherinemjohnson

catherinemjohnson — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:39:04 +0000

>It is hard to check off just one box when you write across genres too. There's no box for picture books and poetry for example.

Thanks for going to the effort to find some stats useful to us even though you don't rep our genres.

Love reading these comments some of them crack me up, but I mainly come here for the awesome industry advice.