You’d probably expect a dark gritty urban fantasy. (There are also things that can’t really be controlled like algorithms offering “similar books you might like.”) It’s done many ways: visually through cover art (image & text), but also via author name, and cover copy/blurb and description. This means that you picked up the book expecting one thing because of the cover and then got something completely different from the words within.Ĭontrolling these expectations is a serious business. Most common these days is visual marker caused betrayal. This book is a hilarious COMEDY fantasy gay romance. Or the cover and/or blurb kind of… lied about the contents. You thought it was one kind of book, despite the cover and blurb trying to tell you otherwise, but you read it anyway.
(This is what I call the “scream and hurl” scenario.)īut more often it’s actually a flaw in expectation. It can be a flaw in story: you’re reading one thing when the author suddenly takes a dive and turns it into something else. Like if a book you picked up thinking it was romance suddenly doesn’t have a happy ending. At its root, it is that sensation one gets if the book you’re reading does something totally unexpected in a bad way. I dithered for a while about what to do about this. You see, I worry about reader betrayal… a lot. It has more sex than my other writing has in the past.It’s urban fantasy, but it’s set in contemporary times, in America.
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It’s still me, full of silliness and fun. The Sumage Solution, is a big departure for me in content, style, and setting. You may or may not have noticed, Gentle Reader, that my San Andreas Shifter books are written under the name… G. On Pseudonyms, Cover Art & Reader Betrayal In this blog post I’m going to discuss why a bestselling author might chose a new pen name. Why have a pseudonym? Why would an author who already has name recognition write under a new pen name?
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