I was chatting with a novelist earlier today and popular themes - among them was how popular romance novels are, and within them a strange calling for men who get pregnant. Wild!
And then I saw this list of anticipated books (https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g38675785/best-books-2022/) - what trends are you noticing?
what movies do you think are needed right now? If you had finger on marketing pulse and could write, make and distribute a movie in a month, what would it be? Another superhero movie? Buddy cop? Something true and inspiring? Romance? Another Iron Eagle?
I will always steer toward a thriller, espionage drama, Marvel Avengers, mafia, but if you've researched back in WWII, movies that were needed were escapism. Sitcoms also help us escape (such as Ghosts, Dead to Me, etc).
Apparently psych thrillers are a tough sell atm... I have a towering tbr pile because every list like this that comes out I think 'Oooh that looks good!'
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Ps. Also front cover themes for this year... Stripes apparently!
D.E. White Really? Psych thrillers are a tough sell? My goodness, those are some of the best films and series on Netflix. Case in point: The Chestnut Man, Fracture, 1922, Double Jeopardy, A Simple Favor, Kiss the Girls, I could go on and on. :)
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No red coats are out this season lol! Debbie Elicksen I loved The Chestnut Man but apparently what the film world calls psych thrillers are not always what the book world calls psych thrillers. As I found out recently when I pitched my psych thriller idea to my agent and she told me it was another crime thriller...
D.E. White Interesting. Although, crime thriller, psych thriller -- maybe it's me, but a thriller is a thriller. They just vary on the dark scale. Then again, book publishers turn most books down. My motto is, when doors close, make your own door. So many success stories of projects that were thought to be unpublishable or not appropriate for film have an audience bigger than the people who turned it down. I wonder how many no's Lin Manuel Miranda got before he turned the world upside down with Hamilton.
Love your motto and so true. Plus, what one publisher doesn't like, another loves...
Wow! Thanks for sharing Karen "Kay" Ross
I've just counted six red coats on NetGalley for next month... ;-) Still going strong!
Thanks for posting; I am curious as to what other "influencers" (for lack of a better word) would include on their list of upcoming books? I'll check for other lists, to see if there are any bigger trends. It seems that, at least in the fiction, the trend darker themes than in the past.