Comments on: Stephenie Meyer is a Genius

By: Inna

Inna — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:06:24 +0000

Thank you, Nattan, for the great post and useful advices! A lot of my friends are the fans of Twilight saga, but I don’t get it. Yeah, I’m not a TA (I’m 25 years old:) I have read the first book. The book is written really bad although I read it in Ukrainian and thought that translation is poor…
I think that the secret of popularity is an amazing PR. And a handsome actors:).

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:26:04 +0000

On a limb, I'm inclined to agree with you. My lady's in to it, too. It captures some kind of nostalgia for the mid-twenty-year-old. And really, genuinely, it's hackneyed in places but the writing is not THAT bad; it wouldn't have been published so widely if it were. .-= Matt´s last blog ..Getting unpublished =-.

By: Katy Evans-Bush

Katy Evans-Bush — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:23:45 +0000

It’s a goose, all right.

The funny thing is, taking your advice to heart, I have an audience, and they seem to like me well enough, & I give them what they want. Today I’m going to give them a thing about the fall of Borders and the Net Book Agreement, and later on a spoof on novels (and emo, thinking about it) from The Onion. All great stuff! And my poetry goes down well enough. But my audience just isn’t as BIG as the emo-vampire audience. Damn it.

Meyer’s genius is to happen to like something really, really, REALLY mass-market. You have to be born with that.

One thing I saw today that I liked, even while it made me shudder. What Meyer is. “Hotter than Potter.” Arggghhh!
.-= Katy Evans-Bush´s last blog ..copywriter’s downfall =-.

By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:07:03 +0000

I know, but “Write Dull, Derivative Emo Rubbish – Maybe People Will Be Thick Enough To Buy It” wouldn’t have made for a good title.

Just because she’s stumbled arse-first onto success doesn’t mean that we can’t learn how she did it!

By: lemondrizzle

lemondrizzle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:50:19 +0000

You make it sound like she actually planned it this way – rather than being natural for her to write dull, derivative emo rubbish. I think you are mistaken.
.-= lemondrizzle´s last blog ..Nation spits on hanky, wipes Gordon Brown’s face =-.