Literary Live and Let Live

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I am full of virtue. I have managed to wrangle some of MY work under control. Six more employee evaluations to write this weekend, and I am ready to register and roll next week.

I'm having a lot of fun posting pictures of great shoes. Without further adieu,

I'm loving these little olive and brown darlings. These also come in an attractive black and red. I see these with a nice 30s or 40s frock. If you have suggestions, I'm up to having my vintage bell pinged as well.

BTW, regrettably, I am getting no kick backs or discounts from Fluevog for bringing you their shoes. I am only getting the yumminess of looking at my favorite pairs of their shoes.

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Recently, there has been a little backlash about too much steampunk. Well, yeah. And while we're at it, at some time or another, there's been too many vampires, too much high fantasy, too many zombies, too many classic novels mixed with some sort of monster trend, a lot of fan fiction about books that copyright has expired on, and a whole lot of paranormal romance featuring women's torsos on their covers.

Because at one point or another, these things have sold, what happens is the publishing industry banks on more of these selling. And truth to tell, some people can't get enough of a certain kind of thing.

Yet, at the same time, publishers are looking for the next gamble, the next thing. What's a writer to do? What's a reader to do?

What you always do. Writers, write what you want to write. Readers, read what you want. Writers, don't worry about popularity or commercialism. Readers, walk away from what you don't want to read, no matter how tired you are of its effects around you.

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