‘I can see the disgruntled reviews on Amazon already: “I don’t get it. This book’s supposed to be about zombies, but the author spends pages and pages talking about all this other stuff I’m not interested in.” Broad-spectrum marketing will attract readers for whom having to look up “cathected” or “brisant” isn’t just an irritant but a moral affront.’

INTELLIGENT GENRE FAN = NON-EXISTENT LOLOLOLOL

I swear to God, the worst zombie/vampire/whatever books I’ve read are the ones by authors with “literary” backgrounds. For example, I was sooooo pumped for “The Passage,” but ending up not finding it half as clever as I think the author found it, and some of the writing was downright terrible. Connie Willis can write a more well-rounded character (who also just so happens to time travel) than a good handful of the “REALLL” authors I’ve read.

I’m really over the ghetto-ization of genre fiction. Fantasy and sci-fi have their problems, but if all you can do is be pretentious and mocking about their tropes, DON’T WRITE A FANTASY OR SCI-FI BOOK. I know, it’s that easy.