Friday, June 26, 2015

Rebooting SVH? Ugh.

I guess they're rebooting Sweet Valley High for TV? Or talking about it, or thinking about it... but, the Diablo Cody SVH movie still hasn't happened, so probably not. And would it be an 80s/90s nostalgia thing, or would it be completely updated like the new versions of the first few Sweet Valley High books? Because the latter sucks all the fun out of it. I was hoping if Diablo Cody made the movie it would still be 80s.

I remember when SVH the TV series came out, I was like, 12, and was mad that it wasn't Sweet Valley Twins (being that those were the books I read at the time). I was also mad that it listed *some* cities/ stations, but not mine. Like they listed 10-20 stations the show would be on and then just gave up and were like, Check Your Local Listings. It was like they were dissing my city (which at the time was Honolulu, HI and then Charleston, SC). I mean, not really, it's just that before the Internet really got going, it was harder to get information. The TV Guide was print, on paper, and came in the newspaper. Good times.
For an SVT show, I had it all worked out: each book in the main series would be half an hour long, and the "Super Editions" and "Super Chillers" could be hour-long specials (And Magna Editions would be 2-hour long Christmas TV movies?? haha). I mostly just wanted to see the Super Chillers, a la Goosebumps. And surely it wouldn't be too hard to find an 11- or 12-year-old pair of blond twins, even if they didn't have "sparkling blue-green eyes"? That would have been awesome, but instead I had to use my imagination and shit.
Now, obviously I want my parody series to be televised or made into movies, but as we all know, that isn't a thing. Unless I change all the names and pretend it's not fanfiction, like E. L. James did. But then it wouldn't be a parody - removing all the Sweet Valley in-jokes would leave a bizarre story of flakiness, (non-wiccan i.e. pretend/fake) witchcraft and puberty. Whatevs.
I'll keep dreamin', y'all.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Something that makes me feel weird...

So, when you click on the Amazon link, you see that my books are available *used* from sellers. I find that weird. Like, did the seller actually read it and is done with it, and is reselling, or did they just buy it to resell (or are they only buying the book - ordering the copy from Createspace - if it sells)? And how are they making a profit if it's the latter. I mean, they're charging more, but no one would buy it at a higher price. Also, I've revised/ corrected typos in my books multiple times, so depending on when they bought it, it could be a "wrong"/ earlier copy.
I know, I think too much. I just want my books to be liked, and also to be PERFECT (no typos, at least. I stand by my [sloppy] Rules of Magic for Piper, the witch babysitter).
And you usually only sell used copies of books that are in demand. So far, mine aren't. I hope they will explode on the scene at some point (even if for being bad, like 50 Shades of Gray... well, I don't have bad grammar/ incorrect colloquialisms in my books, and I don't want to be the bete noir of erotica - they aren't erotic so that's ok - but it does read like fan fiction.... really good fan fiction, I think. I guess what I'm saying is, it would be ok to be popular for being someone's guilty pleasure-reading).
I just threw out two earlier "wrong" copies of my books that were published on Blurb. I didn't want them to exist. I could've recycled them, but I didn't want to chance someone happening upon them by mistake, treating them like real books, and then disregarding them purely for formatting errors/ typos. That was my first try in publishing. Didn't have all the kinks worked out yet.
Yesterday I scoured my defaced-SVT books to find a doodle of Piper (my character in these books) to post on my FB page... but I didn't find one "good" enough.
Typical.