[summer]

What? You've been toadies for the left and now you want to come over and play nice? Buzzz off.

Oh, I disagree with you, Drango. Anytime publishers are willing to put their promotional budgets and distribution channels behind a property, that book's subject matter will usually enjoy greater influence with a wider audience. Consequently, conservatives can only benefit from this new trend.

[Drango]

Consequently, conservatives can only benefit from this new trend.

True, and it's good, but it's don't be fooled into thinking they are on our side. If you put lipstick and a dress on a pig, it's still a pig.

[PoisedWoman]

Yes, conservatives will benefit from the trend.

I was editorial director of a publishing house that specialized in books for a certain niche. We could sell a gajillion of anything on the topic we put between covers, and had many national bestsellers. We offered ZERO advances to writers and raked in great big bucks. Then NY publishing figured out it was time to break into the niche, which they had ignored. They did well, we lost our best authors to them and many sales. Our company almost went out of business.....then along came an opportunity to publish Chicken Soup for the Soul, which every house in NY had turned down cold. The chicken books sold 80 million copies-- and counting.

The point is, trends start where they start, and when they become roaring rivers sweeping millions of readers in their path, the NY houses launch a few yachts and do very well with them. But essentially they are riding the wake of smaller houses who have been rowing along for years.

Ah, the entrepreneurial spirit! Almost never seen in large publishing houses! Nevertheless, conservative books will definitely benefit...and let's devoutly wish that other conservative un-PC ideas will now be allowed to filter into fiction, which has been taken over by the ultra-libs to the extent that if a writer wants to publish a romance or a mystery, he/she damned well better find a way to slam white men, the Pope, any and all symbols of traditional American values.