Signal boost
Jul. 1st, 2010 11:31 am
Signal boost for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
inkstone's post about bookstores refusing to stock a novel because the cover depicts an asian woman and that won't sell.
What gets me is how completely false the presumption is. "Asian fantasy" doesn't sell? Good heavens, when I was the age this book is targeted toward, it was my favourite thing! There may have been a less than politically-correct dimension to my interest as a teen but I would have loved this novel. Anything set in the Far East always caught my interest. This book? I would have devoured.
Even today, one of my favourite fantasy novels is Sasha Miller's Ladylord. And - shock, horror - it features an Asian woman on the cover. Which is why I bought it. (Note: not a novel to read if you're triggered by sexual violence or coersion.)
To the booksellers referenced ininkstone's post: it should be bloody obvious that something won't sell if you don't even stock it. Damn you for forcing the publisher to turn what looks like a glorious novel into something bland and uninteresting.
(And for the record, I have now ordered a copy of the novel. With its original cover.)
inkstone's post about bookstores refusing to stock a novel because the cover depicts an asian woman and that won't sell. What gets me is how completely false the presumption is. "Asian fantasy" doesn't sell? Good heavens, when I was the age this book is targeted toward, it was my favourite thing! There may have been a less than politically-correct dimension to my interest as a teen but I would have loved this novel. Anything set in the Far East always caught my interest. This book? I would have devoured.
Even today, one of my favourite fantasy novels is Sasha Miller's Ladylord. And - shock, horror - it features an Asian woman on the cover. Which is why I bought it. (Note: not a novel to read if you're triggered by sexual violence or coersion.)
To the booksellers referenced in
inkstone's post: it should be bloody obvious that something won't sell if you don't even stock it. Damn you for forcing the publisher to turn what looks like a glorious novel into something bland and uninteresting. (And for the record, I have now ordered a copy of the novel. With its original cover.)
