Tessa, I can only offer an amateur’s perspective or perhaps better yet, the perspective of a teacher and mom who often picks books based on summaries such as this. The second text drew me in right away. I could instantly gauge the target audience...
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The second one that begins "Wishes really do come true!" grabs me in a way the first one doesn't. I'm not an agent, but that's the one I'd go for, perhaps finding a way to add the phrase "shadow-beings of darkness and death" to it somewhere....
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Oh goodness. I hadn't realized you had posted here, I thought I'd get an email.
The funny thing about this trend specifically is that agents and publishers say that the market is saturated and that the trend is dying. Yesterday I checked out Book...
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This is a great article. I think it is best not to worry about the trends so much. Or, if that's impossible, come up with something NOT in the trend... and maybe it will become so, starting with you :)
BTW, Vampires were the trend in the 90's with...
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