First synopsis: “Ike Graham, editor of a New York newspaper, learns of the case of Maggie, a young woman living in a rural area of Maryland who has a strange habit of running away from the altar right before her death. to marry. Intrigued, Ike writes a column about the young woman’s case, not foreseeing Maggie’s anger and the chain of complications that will eventually arise. Second summary: “One day, Magnus Sigge, the baker and mayor of the town of Sandbergen, finds an unconscious woman in the sand while fishing. When he wakes up, he discovers that he doesn’t remember anything about himself or his past. Waiting for her to recover, Magnus offers her a job in his bakery and gives her a name: Lucia.” Third synopsis: “Lina Solavita has just moved to Knockemout and is Nash’s new neighbor. Smart and sexy, she’s the only one who can see the shadows the police chief hides. Lina doesn’t like personal touch, but for some reason Nash’s touch is different. He realizes this too. It’s a shame that Lina has secrets of her own, and if Nash finds out the real reason she came to town, he won’t forgive her.” One of them corresponds to this A. film from Hollywood starring two big stars, one in a romantic novel and the other in a romantic novel. a german television movie.
For those who can’t match every summary to its genre, here are the answers. The first of these is the summary runaway brideA 1999 film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. The second summarizes the argument The magic of Sandbergen, a German television film telling the saga of Inga Lindström (the pseudonym of the writer Christiane Sadlo), broadcast on weekends and grouped under the concept of ‘afternoon film’. What remains is the plot of the novel The things we hide from the lightrelated to Lucy Score Translated and published by Sonia Tanco in Spain, Chic publishing house. A book that It meets all the requirements of the classic and normative romance novel, but is labeled ‘Small Town Romance’, meaning it is set in a small town.usually found in the United States. It is precisely in the Anglo-Saxon world that such books have so far achieved most success. bookmakers (TikTok users who wrote the readings) are influencers. Now they are landing in the Spanish-speaking market.
Eva Lopez He is one of the book prescribers who has triumphed on the Chinese social network. Her profile @evayloslibros has 51,400 followers and her videos have reached almost two million likes. “Small Town Romance” (henceforth STR) is “a trope,” explains El Periódico de España of Prensa Ibérica, a group that specializes in “fantasy, romance and suspense,” as its TikTok description states. In the Anglo-Saxon sense of this word, that is, “an element or theme that is often recurring within a genre and its subgenres (in this case, the romance genre).”
In any case, Eva López came to STR from the literary collective Booktook, of which she was a member. “My favorites right now Archer’s voicefrom the author Mia Sheridan and his books Elsie Silver This book, which Pàmies publishing house has started to translate into Spanish, has been published before. Win at all costs and on November 6th he released the next one, Earn up to your limit”. According to this Elena RodríguezThis theme triumphs because it shows that there is life beyond the big cities where romantic novels were once set, says the editor of Chic Editorial. “There are stories of love and romance that deserve to be told and that take place in slums or small towns, which gives the plot a special charm,” he continues. Identification with the hero of the story is another key to STR’s success. “It’s easier to identify with a hero who lives in a small town, who is close to the boy or man she’s attracted to, who she meets when she goes shopping, to the laundromat, or to work,” she comments. This is the concept of the ‘Girl Next Door’ (an ordinary girl next door) that is used a lot in advertising or fiction by heterosexual cisgender men, but is applied to the opposite gender.
The LGTBI community is not well represented in these threads. Although a quick Google search shows a list of STR books featuring non-heterosexual characters. Bestsellers are normative in every way: both in the sexual orientation of the characters and their physiques. (they are pretty self-explanatory) or the archetypes they represent. In fact, the events are so predictable that you sense what will happen from the first chapter, but this is an advantage rather than a problem for the reader. As Eva López says, “These are reads that I know I will enjoy because it’s a trope I enjoy and it’s very predictable. Some people may think that a predictable story means it’s not good, but I think the opposite.” For me predictability equals security”.
This feeling of peace is not far from the feeling created by what is known as the ‘comfort series’. Audio-visual works that people take shelter in when they want to escape from reality, with a friendly fiction and no surprises because they have seen it thousands of times. series like Friends, modern family certainly, Gilmore Girls Coincidentally, it is also set in a cute little American town. scenarios Amy Sherman-Palladino They are far from STR romantic novels, but the neighbor falling in love and the dynamics of daily life in a small town are also present. “The STR trope is not unique to books,” says Eva López. “Actually, many of them have audiovisual adaptations. For example, several Nicholas Sparks: Noah’s diary, a place to shelter, my best, Last song anyone longest journey”, lists Booktoker.
people’s queen
Although it is still far from reaching the monstrous sales figures of the owner and lady of romance Danielle Steel (Over 500 million copies shipped), Lucy Score accumulates her fortune step by step. She rose to fame with more than twenty published works. The first book of the Knockout trilogy Things we never leave behindRepresenting a true revolution in TikTok. The book reached number one on the bestseller list. New York Times and to the highest positions Wall StreetJournal And America today. “I’m not going to lie, I read this book because I saw everyone, I mean I read EVERYTHING. Social networks, especially TikTok, have made this book visible, and with over 61.8 million views on the hashtag #ThingsWeNeverGotOver on TikTok, the book continues to reach all parts of the world,” literary blogger Silvana Reyes wrote on the popular website. Book Rebellion.
Score began his career by self-publishing his books on Amazon. The first one was titled Cocktails at seven o’clock, a novella that sold only 35 copies. As he said in an interview Washington Post, was about to throw in the towel and look for a “real job” when faced with this outcome. But one day, he received an email from another freelance writer that changed the course of his career. “Your brother shared the link to your book on a forum, so I downloaded it and read it. I really liked it. I run a small publishing company. “Would you let me rewrite and publish this as a full-length novel?” the email said. I said. As with the works he signed, what happened next will not surprise him (it will make his readers happy).
Chic publishing house has so far published the first two books of its successful trilogy. Things we never leave behind And The things we hide from the light, and plans to release the third in 2024. “Her books are addictive, entertaining and ingenious, and Lucy Score has managed to connect with a very wide (though not exclusively) female readership. It has readers in their twenties and fifties.and it’s wonderful that an author of such a specific genre can connect with such a wide readership,” explains Elena Rodríguez. These titles have a length of over 500 pages, which may put some readers off, but the editor insists there is no need to fear. “No novel reader. I have a friend who only reads manga and I gave him a gift. Things we never leave behind To read it even if he doesn’t know whether he will read it or not. So it took two days, and for weeks he kept asking me when we were going to publish the second book in the series. “Reaching readers outside your own genre is an extraordinary thing that very few writers can achieve,” he says.
Eva López hasn’t entered the Score universe yet, but she plans to do so soon. For now, he recommends starting STR with Mia Sheridan and her novel Archer’s voice. “In this book, Bree escapes the city and moves to the town of Pelion. [situado en el estado norteamericano de Maine] To escape a trauma from his past. There he meets Archer Hale, a young man who cannot speak due to a childhood accident and is ignored by the entire town. Bree and Archer are two people who help each other and fall in love along the way. “It’s a very nice STR,” he says.
There are also writers in Spain who include this subject in their romantic novels. Words by Elena Rodríguez Carmen Sereno and his book Nobody dies in Wellington, published in the publishing house. “Carmen is an extraordinary writer and her books are In addition to exciting plots, they also have environments that will transport you in a magical way.” he comments. Additionally, draw on and mention two other international Chic authors: “Brittainy Cherry and her series elements or with Ilsa Madden-Mills You are not my Romeo”. Intimacy romantic love.
Source: Informacion
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