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Trends come and trends go, so are we supposed to stop
reading what we love?
I will admit, I LOOOOOVED Twilight when I first read the
books and I still love them to this day. At the time there were vampires
everywhere we looked. We had Vampire Academy, The Vampire Diaries, Marked, and
many many more.
Since then, vampires have gone to the wayside. When
submitting to an agent, if the word vampire pops up in a query it is the kiss
of death. “You missed the trend, we can’t sell that.” Ya…whatever.
So does that mean, as a whole, we no longer care about the undead
and paranormal? Well not according to television. Just this year we got two
brand new vampire shows: Dracula, and The Vampires Diaries spinoff, The
Originals. (All of which I love.
Helloooo Marcel.) HBO’s Trueblood and Syfy’s Being Human are as popular as
ever, and the werewolf series Bitten is gaining traction with every episode.
I would also like to point out, apart from Being Human, all
of the above-mentioned television shows are based on books.
So answer me this…have we stopped reading vampire books
because we are sick of them? Or is it because so few are getting published these days?
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