I can't agree more and it's kind of an issue because certainly there are very good writers out there whose stuff I don't read - whose stuff, if I did read that genre or trope, I'd certainly be liking and telling them about it. That's bound to be true of my stuff too. There will be people who'll love, like it, be indifferent, hate it, and never sample it at all because they simply don't read the kind of stuff I write. And feedback being what it is, you get a very skewed sense, I think, of what those percentages are. I'm not sure why this fascinates me so much except that as a student of human nature I'm interested in how we as writers think about things v. how things really are, and we can really never know how things really are out there in our "readership." Many of us would like to, but as a reader, too, I'm sure glad I can't be forced to respond. :-)
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