#revpit I can't tell you how many people think writing is easy. Esp romance, YA, or books for younger kids. There's a lack of respect for the work that grinds my gears. So showing you read your genre is showing you respect the people you are trying to get the attention of. 3/

#revpit Also, how are you going to know what the expectations are for your genre or what's selling if you don't read it? It's called market research. 4/

#revpit And if you don't know what's selling, how are you going to stand out? You can only break the rules once you know what they are! 5/

#revpit Sorry, I failed to make that a thread. But this is something I am SUPER PASSIONATE about, having working in commercial fiction my whole career and heard every derogatory crack you can think of. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. 6/