Steelwhisper's Reviews > 7 Figure Fiction: How to Use Universal Fantasy to Sell Your Books to Anyone

What did I think?

One thing is sure, this author knows how to engender a completely useless hype, and even prices that stupid thing so high, she probably earns herself a packet with it. Exploiting fellow authors the while, of course. And insofar - well done indeed! (I hope people grasp that this was a cynical statement?)

That said, I couldn't get anything out of this. Firstly, it was so firmly US-centric that it doesn't make much sense to anyone coming from or preferring a different culture. With that I do not at all mean the interracial aspects of her writing and suggestions, I mean the fact that she uses Disney and Grey's Anatomy (of all things!) to make her points on tropes and clichés she has cheekily renamed "Ultimate Fantasies" as a means to hard-sell her booklet.

Secondly, the author is completely unaware of the actual European background (and folktale truths) behind the Disney versions of "The Beauty and the Beast" or "Cinderella" and the likes. She also seems to think that people in general like US movies and TV, and what the US culture stands for these days. Which means she reaches conclusions which - for a large part of the world - aren't exactly correct.

Lastly - the core of this book tries to sell me tropes such as "Bully Romance", alphaholes, abductions, toxic masculinity, Edward Cullen (and the entire Twilight stuff) as well as the trash of FSoG as the revelation on making money and writing fabulous books. I mean, bloody hell! These are the tropes I do my damndest best to AVOID!

Yes, I was aware of the fact that such pulpy trash still sells. No, that doesn't mean even more authors should write it. It means even less that you end up with good fiction of ANY kind if you seek out very tired, misogynist bullshit and incorporate it into whatever project is on your mind.

And for roughly 70% of this allegedly so enlightening book I was grumbling "will-ya come to the point already?", because that was how much hot air was pumped into it to fluff it up to sell-worthy proportions. As a side note - I gained weight simply by the repetition of the word "butter".

So no, I can't recommend this. There's certainly not anything in this which would tell you anything new or noteworthy.