But I actually think allbery said it very well, even though they were responding to a different comment: the Anita Blake books started out in one subgenre, moved to a second, and are now sitting squarely in a third.
For new readers coming in to the series, this is a totally valid point. However, as I've said in this thread, LKH practically defined the mainstream paranormal & sex subgenre because she moved her character into it. Was there paranormal erotica before LKH? Probably.
But there was Fantasy before Terry Brooks, as well; Brooks was the author whose work, and the marketing of said work, created the modern Epic Fantasy sub-genre as a publishing category. LKH can't, imho, be accused of switching genres in this case because that genre in a broad publishing sense didn't exist before her.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:26 pm (UTC)For new readers coming in to the series, this is a totally valid point. However, as I've said in this thread, LKH practically defined the mainstream paranormal & sex subgenre because she moved her character into it. Was there paranormal erotica before LKH? Probably.
But there was Fantasy before Terry Brooks, as well; Brooks was the author whose work, and the marketing of said work, created the modern Epic Fantasy sub-genre as a publishing category. LKH can't, imho, be accused of switching genres in this case because that genre in a broad publishing sense didn't exist before her.