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Of course JK Rowling doesn't have to apologize, her net worth is like a billion. Cancellation is most public when targeting extremely famous people but it's the
by spoonjim 4y ago
Of course JK Rowling doesn't have to apologize, her net worth is like a billion. Cancellation is most public when targeting extremely famous people but it's the less famous people who actually get harmed: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/books/amelie-wen-zhao-blood-heir.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/books/amelie-wen-zhao-blo...
- shadowgovt 4y agoLooks like she tripped over the American assumption that the flavor of slavery experienced in their territory was the only type. ... But, she was planning to sell to an American audience so that matters. If anything, it sounds like the feedback gave her a chance to tighten her fiction to be aligned better to the target market. That's a win for her and her publisher.
- spoonjim 4y agoAh, so now it's a good thing to change PoC lived experiences to match the stereotypes held by the majority-White American YA fiction market?
- shadowgovt 4y agoDepends on one's goals. Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are formulaic as hell and rack incredible amounts of money. Anybody who just wants to write can drop their thoughts on a blog and call it a day. People who want to make money writing have to account for shaping the message to part people from their dollars. Fifty Shades of Grey started as Twilight fanfiction. In that form it couldn't be marketed. A few name changes and some reframing and it has sold over 150 million copies.