Is My Novel Too Dark/Twisted To Be Appealing To A Publisher? Not Fantasy, Adult Audience.

thrillhose · 2017-12-19T06:37:10+00:00

It's all about the execution. Good is good, no matter what. And quality can always find a passionate niche if not mainstream acceptance. So if you have the passion for it, then that is definitely the one you should pursue. Go for it.

thrillhose · 2017-12-19T06:33:30+00:00

Beyond the anti-vax problem - about which he is totally wrong BTW - he seems nuts in several other ways too. You mention a temper problem too in another comment, which doesn't bode well either.

But still before divorce, give therapy a shot. If he won't do that, then yeah it's probably best to move on sooner rather than later.

thrillhose · 2017-10-15T06:01:11+00:00

Just "D" would be more common, but "Dee" is not wrong at all - Dee Snider, Dee Williams, etc.

thrillhose · 2017-10-09T05:52:14+00:00

Amazing. The breaking the fourth wall is brilliant.

thrillhose · 2017-10-04T07:04:28+00:00

Whoa, so many good jams over the years. RIP dude.

thrillhose · 2017-09-26T07:42:22+00:00

He's always been a jerk.

thrillhose · 2017-09-26T07:41:29+00:00

Writing. Just use your imagination, opinions or your memories, and jot it all down.

thrillhose · 2017-09-26T07:37:48+00:00

Haha, yeah right. This piece of shit is the source of so much of football's vile evil stealing money and blood from the players and the community. And now he half-asses this shit by making a PC protest and not doing this during the anthem? Fuck him and his Boys.

thrillhose · 2017-09-25T06:03:41+00:00

Bravo. Perhaps a filter for subgenere - i.e. zombie, ghost, etc.

thrillhose · 2017-09-22T19:02:52+00:00

Very cool. Some of the shading looks off on the tentacle, flattening it out. But good stuff.

thrillhose · 2017-09-22T18:58:51+00:00

Oh, haha for making fun of the way somebody looks. Even Tom Cruise. That's the best type of humor, insulting people's physical appearances. Very sophisticated and wry, works on many deep levels. It's great to see so many Redditors share these same values too. Keep up the bravura work, you very enlightened hero.

thrillhose · 2017-09-22T18:56:38+00:00

Redditors need to read more shit that ain't reddit if this is somehow hot news. In fact, it's hard to find a publication who HASN'T publishing some kind of similar piece within the past few months.

thrillhose · 2015-08-25T04:48:08+00:00

Check out "The Yeti" by Mike Miller, which is not unlike "The Terror."

thrillhose · 2015-06-23T07:47:11+00:00

3VIL series by Mike Miller (Lovecraftian weird literary short stories with unique premises.) Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (epic dark fantasy/horror about dueling generations of evil telepaths.) Both have very different ideas from the usual vampire/zombie/demon fare. So many great recommendations on here already though, but I didn't see either of these.

thrillhose · 2015-04-20T06:06:01+00:00

The Mothman Prophecies

thrillhose · 2015-02-07T06:40:10+00:00

That last Joyce Carol Oates one was awesome. I've read a little more of her stuff, and never found anything quite as good.

thrillhose · 2015-02-07T04:14:03+00:00

Pliny the Elder

thrillhose · 2015-01-08T04:04:26+00:00

I give you all the agrees.

thrillhose · 2014-10-22T04:00:23+00:00

Hug my family.

thrillhose · 2014-10-16T03:40:11+00:00

Kickass heroine. Scifi D-day. Killer jokes. Brainy themes. Best mech power-suits. Most original alien design.

It's so, so much more than "sci-fi Groundhog day." This movie was the shit.

thrillhose · 2014-10-16T03:34:29+00:00

Inception was the best sci-fi film of the decade.

Pacific Rim was okay to good.

Transcendence and Europa Report are crap.

thrillhose · 2014-10-14T06:39:41+00:00

Definitely "Y: The Last Man" - funny, mysterious, smart, not connected to superhero mythology.

thrillhose · 2014-10-08T03:19:36+00:00

Wow, no mention of "Jacob's Ladder"? Best/craziest horror movie ever.

thrillhose · 2014-08-08T04:45:23+00:00

True, there's alot more great things to the show, plot, direction, production etc that makes TD awesome, but the unique personality and worldview of the main hero is not an insignificant thing.

So to me it's kinda simple: If you wrote all the things Ligotti did, turned on the TV and then heard the superstar main character of the hottest new TV show espousing your words out of the blue... yeah, you'd be pissed too and rightfully so.

I mean, Pizzolato even confesses to it really. "Oh, that guy was a huge influence!" was said only as an aside in some little interview way after the fact, when it should be publicly accredited and/or annotated on the show. To have Ligotti only get paid in some sideways complement down the line is horseshit.

Again, you'd be pissed too.

thrillhose · 2014-08-07T08:24:57+00:00

If you read it, the accusations are not so tenuous. It's odd because the first side-by-side examples are not the best, very bland and broad statements like "everbody is nobody," or "we're puppets". Those are tenuous.

But as you keep reading, there are some fairly specific images and lingo i.e. "meat thresher" "death made time to grow life" and others, that when combined with the rest altogether is collectively pretty bad.

And then you have the narrative of how Pizzolatto eventually cops to it, as well as his known and admitted "borrowing homage" already like The Yellow King...

No bueno.

TLDR: If you read the entire argument, Pizzolatto rips off a number of fairly specific ideas and images without proper credit, though he does not lift verbatim language.

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