I mean I think I understand the books' popularity pretty well -- she was lucky and she had privilege In general people who don't understand the degree to which this applies to all kinds of success are assholes, and give awful advicehttps://twitter.com/rob_mcivor/status/1307413211323432965 …
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Hell, JKR *herself* tried an experiment to prove she had real talent and wasn't a fluke, that *miserably failed* Nobody bought "Robert Galbraith's" first book, no one cared about it, until finally it was confirmed that "he" was JKR and suddenly it became an instant bestseller
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also like, a lot of this i think is just . . . markets doing what they do? someone was like "ooh she's got 7 books worth of content, we haven't had a hit kid franchise in awhile," and threw a fuckton of money at it. the difference between book 1 marketing and book 4 was VAST.
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like the first three were a quaint little trilogy and you can trace the Phenomenon back to the insane hype leading up to book 4, and then it just grew and grew from there.
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There was an explosion in youth and YA fiction after Harry Potter, but it should also be remembered there was a real gap before Publishers had decided kids didn't read books and hadn't put much effort into that segment There are lots of HP-wannabe titles in the discount bin too
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the possibly apocryphal story of bruce coville discussing her success at a YA convention and mockingly shaking his fist at the heavens, "WHY NOT ME, GOD!"
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