A follow up thought on Luna

[zengar]

I just had a thought about why those cover blurbs might be so... inaccurate. Luna is a sub imprint of Harlequin, which is best know for romance novels. Now genre fiction like that sometimes has the publisher send the outline to the writer rather than the other way around. What if that is what is happening here? Since Lackey had one of her characters doing such work, it is possible that she might be no stranger to it herself. And if so, well that would explain why these books didn't quite feel the same. And the blurbs would then have been written based on an outline that the story... wandered away from in a few places.

Or Lackey could have just been off her game when writing One Good Knight. Fortune's Fool certainly seems to have come out better in my opinion, although this is the one where the blurb is flat out wrong in one place and only sorta true in another.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I don't think Luna works on that model. Some of the other romance lines, yes, particularly where they have different authors writing in the same series with the same characters and setting.

But I could be wrong. I _think_ I remember my agent submitting something of mine to Luna, once back in the Dreamtime.