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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1375016" data-attributes="member: 5171">JD: Does R.A. outsell Terry Pratchett or the Neil Gaiman stuff?  I honestly don't know.  And are we talking worldwide or U.S.?Those caveats aside, I find it pretty easy to understand.  It's the lowest-common-denominator principle, and not in an attacking way.  While it's pretty bland stuff in my opinion as well, it doesn't have anything in it that's going to hack off a lot of people.  Good people are good, even if they make mistakes, and evil people are pretty much evil evil evil unless they have a sign over their head that reads "redeemable".You ever notice how the women who win pageants aren't necessarily the most strikingly gorgeous -- they're the ones who have the least objectionable faces.  Again, not in a bad way -- there's no way to say it well in English.  Their faces are very templattable, very average and symmetrical and appropriate in all ways.  You won't see any exotic almond-shaped eyes, because some people don't LIKE almond-shaped eyes.  Huge generalization, and I'm sure that there have been exceptions -- but in general, the people who win the beauty pageants are the people that have a clean, simple look that everyone can project their own fantasies onto.  (And again, not in a bad way.  My wife is a mix of Scottish, Swedish, and Native American.  She can pass for any of those types.  She blends into whatever group she's in.  When we went to Russia, people stopped and talked to her in Russian on the street because her appearance was... not bland... but symmetrical and open enough that everyone thought she was a local.)Same with reading these guys.  They don't do it for me, because I like specific things in my fiction now, but they're going to appeal to everyone to a certain extent.  They've got the tropes, and they're not going to offend anybody with new ideas.  And, lest I not say it enough, that's not a bad thing.  I'm not trying to make an attack.  They're not my style anymore, but hey, anything that brings people into the field is good for me as a wannabe-writer.</blockquote>

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