Originally Posted by Hitch
I mean, for the love of...how many romancey vampire books, came out, on the heels of Twifright? How many romancey werewolf books? (Not to mention, apparently, mountains of supernatural porn.) How many wizard books emerged, post-Harry? There is never a lack of emulators, once someting is successful, and the other truth is, when people discover a new niche, they want MORE in that niche, so in some ways, the emulators are serving a purpose. People discover Harry Dresden...and they want more urban paranormal mysteries. If there's only Harry, they're going to be disappointed after consuming his backlist of books. Ditto any other enormously successful series or genre or oeuvre by X.
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