The only romance reader I know is my 83-year-old first
father-in-law, so I'm no expert there, except I've now got
him hooked on autobiographical and fictional accounts of
World War II in Eastern Europe.
I never read thrillers, blockbuster
or otherwise, unless accidentally, mostly because I find them
silly. I like my fiction realistic,* which I suppose is why I
tend to prefer hardboiled stuff, Pelecanos rather than
Clancy, say.
Joy
*I'm now struggling with a protagonist standing on a certain
street and feeling a breeze from the river, which I think is
15 blocks away. I will have to consult a map before I
continue.
Tim Wohlforth noted:
> I agree that many readers of dark fiction happen to
be middle-aged
> women. In fact the NY Times recently reported a slip
in sales of
> romances and suggested that these readers seem to be
buying blockbuster
> thrillers (once viewed as "man's" books.) What I was
trying to suggest
> is that publishers may view readers as I described.
Thus, when buying
> first mystery novels that sell mainly in hardback to
libraries, they are
> more likely to go with a "cozy" than a hardboiled.
Perhaps there is some
> other explanation of the problem I outlined. Or
maybe the problem
> doesn't exist.
>
> I know, when I go to mystery conventions and sit at
a banquet table with
> a mixed group of fans, largely women, from parts of
the country I never
> visit (e.g. small towns and cities in the midwest),
I always ask what
> they read. Almost universally it's a mixture that
includes some pretty
> dark stuff.
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