Love in the Time of Self-Publishing (eBook)

How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

Christine M. Larson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21739-0 (ISBN)

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Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditionsAs writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful exampleand a cautionary taleabout self-organization and mutual aid in the digital economy. In Love in the Time of Self-Publishing, Christine Larson traces the forty-year history of Romancelandia, a sprawling network of romance authors, readers, editors, and others, who formed a unique community based on openness and collective support. Empowered by solidarity, American romance writersonce disparaged literary outcastsbecame digital publishing's most innovative and successful authors. Meanwhile, a new surge of social media activism called attention to Romancelandia's historic exclusion of romance authors of color and LGBTQ+ writers, forcing a long-overdue cultural reckoning.Drawing on the largest-known survey of any literary genre as well as interviews and archival research, Larson shows how romance writers became the only authors in America to make money from the rise of ebooksincreasing their median income by 73 percent while other authors' plunged by 40 percent. The success of romance writers, Larson argues, demonstrates the power of alternative forms of organizing influenced by gendered working patterns. It also shows how networks of relationships can amplifyor mutecertain voices.Romancelandia's experience, Larson says, offers crucial lessons about solidarity for creators and other isolated workers in an increasingly risky employment world. Romancelandia's rise and near-meltdown shows that gaining fair treatment from platforms depends on creator solidaritybut creator solidarity, in turn, depends on fair treatment of all members.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b/w illus. 9 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • amazon • Apple • Arabesque • Asian • Asian American • Authors Guild • Black lives matter • Black Love Matters • black women • Book History • Book Industry Study Group • Bowling Green State University • Browne Popular Culture Library • Candlelight • Carina • Celina Rios Mullan • Childress • Chilove • Christine Larson • Civil War • clayton • Clayton Childress • Courtney Milan • Crime • Cultural labor • Cultural Production • dell • Digital Economy • digital labor • Discord • Diversity • Ellora • Equity • Ethics of Care • exhale • Facebook • Fandom • Feminism • GayRomLit • Gender • Genesis • Glenfinnan • guardian • Harlequin Horizons • Huguley • Instagram • Internet Creators Guild • Intersectionality • Irish Thoroughbred • Kensington • Kindle Direct Publishing • Labor • Larson • Latinx • LGBTQ+ • Lifetime Achievement Award • Love Train • Media Sociology • Music Coalition • mwa • Mystery Writers • National Press Club • New Economy • odyssey • OpEd Project • Organizations • Organizing • Pandora • platforms • Polity • popular culture • Prodigy • Published Authors Network • publishers weekly • Readers • Regency • Regency Fiction Writers • Romance Authors Mastermind • Romancelandia • Romancelandians • romance novels • romance writers • Romance Writers of America (RWA) • Romance Writers Report • Romancing the Runoff • Romantic Times • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) • Silhouette • Smart Bitches • Smithton • Social Justice • Sociology • Southern California • Sweet Savage Love • Tweet Twitter • Twilight • twitch • Twitter • Uber • Virginia Held • Washington Post • women’s studies • Woodlands • Writing the Romance: The Overlooked Heroines of the Digital Economy and What They Can Teach Gig Workers • youtube • YouTubers
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21739-4 / 0691217394
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21739-0 / 9780691217390