And newer readers will say things like "I don't want to have to learn thing when I read. Publishing killed mass market and readers won't buy these covers even if we love them. And even if they could, you can't advertise with them, and you they get flagged for nudity. - ThreadSky

jenreadsromance.bsky.social • 74 days ago

And newer readers will say things like "I don't want to have to learn thing when I read. Publishing killed mass market and readers won't buy these covers even if we love them. And even if they could, you can't advertise with them, and you they get flagged for nudity.

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shipperxphile.bsky.social•74 days ago

As an old school reader: How did the world change so much? I don’t understand anything.

I feel old.

(But I did just finish reading a historical that. I paid full price for. And I liked it)

emdanyell.bsky.social•74 days ago

Oof. See, I have some of these OG covers and these new ones are…not my fave.

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•74 days ago

Or you have dragonblade out there defending the use of AI on covers unless an author specifically opts out and we get this type of crap. https://romancelandiauni.substack.com/p/going-forward-our-stance-on-ai

madwomanreading.bsky.social•65 days ago

I fully understand and am nodding my head at MOST of what you’re saying, but can you clarify what you mean by “this crap”? Do you mean the post by Romancelandia Uni in general, or the content of the post relating to Dragonblade? If so, I’m not wild about the negativity toward RU.

madwomanreading.bsky.social•65 days ago

I meant - IF you were referring to RU in general*
My kingdom for an edit button, here we go again.

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•65 days ago

oh I would never say a bad thing about RU!

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•65 days ago

"this crap" means "shitty AI covers", that post by RU about dragonblade and how they won't talk about books with AI covers is terrific. I have so much respect for them. I'm just...idk, I just greatly resent being made complicit in the use of generative AI.

madwomanreading.bsky.social•65 days ago

Thank you for clarifying! 💜

jackiebarbosa.bsky.social•65 days ago

So much this. I really hate that I have to become some sort of visual detective to figure out whether a book I want to read has a genAI cover. GenAI is theft and I don't support thieves, but I also have only so many spoons.

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•65 days ago

and I don't particularly feel like I should have to become some sort of expert on digital illustration in order to buy books.

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•74 days ago

So everything needs to look like cartoon shit now, okay. this is the world we have made. Stop saying Historical Romance is trying to trick people, it's trying to SURVIVE. No more purity tests. If you want historical romance to live, START BUYING IT and READING IT and RECOMMENDING IT.

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•74 days ago

sorry for all the typos, i'm just so mad.

farrahrescuescats.bsky.social•74 days ago

It makes me so sad that historical romance is struggling - I read 100 books this past year and roughly 80 of them were histrom. It’s my favorite by far

cazreadingrm.bsky.social•74 days ago

Seems to me publishers are trying to kill it by putting out such crappy HR most of the time. My reading used to be 95% HR but now it's more like 5% b/c so much of it is wallpaper.

cdelaneywrites.bsky.social•65 days ago

Santa brought me 8 mass market historicals like the good little elf he is.

bookittoclarence.bsky.social•74 days ago

Embrace the painless learning through fiction (as my friend calls it)! It’s great. You don’t have to do anything except sit back and enjoy a sexy story about two beautiful idiots falling in love to flummox your friends with knowledge of cirri Les and teams of four

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•74 days ago

like, why are they mad about it! jeez!

bookittoclarence.bsky.social•74 days ago

Curricles- BlueSky is flummoxed by even the word

jenreadsromance.bsky.social•74 days ago

bluesky doesn't read enough historical romance, obvi.

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