A rant about pop fantasy and the ruination of monsters

Lately i've been doing heaps and heaps of promo on facebook. There are lots of groups for people who want to find new books by indy authors. The problem with the fact everyone can write a book, is everyone now does. While there is some great stuff out in the world, there are some titles that are so bad it's crazy. I used to think things like twilight we're good because they're making fantasy more accessible, but they aren't. They are just making fantasy into pop and lame.

No i'm not trying to say i'm some great writer here, all i'm saying is i have some respect for the people who actually came up with these ideas in the first place, not the a-holes who have turned them into commercial fodder.

Here's one I read recently, i'll just say the idea, not details, I'm not that mean. But i'll write it in their style.

'He was just after some easy money, he was the kind of good looking bad boy who normal got whatever, and whoever he wanted. But he wasn't expecting when he went to the werewolf party that he would end up hooking up with the male alpha, or that he'd get pregnant!

no shit, that is actually a story line from a real book!

The problem with this stuff is that people actually read it and now when someone thinks of vampires they think of this shit, werewolves, shape shifters, they have taken and fucked up. All these cool creatures and once original ideas. You think Bram Stoker would like twilight? he'd be pissed off that they stole his monster and made it a heartthrob with glitter skin.

In short, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. I could write a hack book in a week about some vampire/werewolf bad boy and his love for a non-nonsense business women and sell it, but I would be selling my soul.

If you want to writer romance, write romance. If you want to write erotica, write erotica. But in the name of the dark one, please leave monsters alone. Vampires don't fall in love. They don't have hearts that pump blood, they can't have sex, as mentioned they don't get erections due to no blood pumping! They kill people, that's what they like, they don't go to high school. If you we're 300 years old would you go back to high school, it was shit the first time, let alone the 50th time.

Once the classic monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, they we're things to be feared. Now if you want to create something scary, you actually have to create something of your own. Once you do just pray you don't get famous, cause some idiot will come along and ruin it.