I was wondering how I'd pitch my story that's mostly romantic tragedy. Once upon a time romantic tragedy sold. Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, etc.
Shame Romance nowadays must have an HEA.
So, instead of trying to pitch it as a paranormal romance, I can safely remain within the realm of fantasy with overtones of romantic tragedy a la Romeo & Juliet.
Now, I could change the ending to be an HEA, but I think that would be a cop-out and ruin the story. I want to keep the sense of bittersweet loss.
Moral of the story: Build the tree of a solid genre with a big audience, but hang the ornaments of a subgenre with a minority audience on it. I just thought of another benefit to this--New and Different Approach value.
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Date: 2006-06-22 07:33 am (UTC)I was wondering how I'd pitch my story that's mostly romantic tragedy. Once upon a time romantic tragedy sold. Shakespeare, Hans Christian Andersen, etc.
Shame Romance nowadays must have an HEA.
So, instead of trying to pitch it as a paranormal romance, I can safely remain within the realm of fantasy with overtones of romantic tragedy a la Romeo & Juliet.
Now, I could change the ending to be an HEA, but I think that would be a cop-out and ruin the story. I want to keep the sense of bittersweet loss.
Moral of the story: Build the tree of a solid genre with a big audience, but hang the ornaments of a subgenre with a minority audience on it. I just thought of another benefit to this--New and Different Approach value.