There is some best sellers out there that are period based or even prehistory but I can only recall a few best sellers. If I were to write historical fiction (reality and/or fantasy) will it remain unpublished (because it isn't original enough), remain on bookshelves in the land of obscurity or rise to fame?
I guess it's a question that really cannot be answered unless you read my plot ideas (for the personal half of the question) but as an all around question for every work that is out there. What do you think?
Have you read the Jeanette Winterson book published this year? A talented writer can create an interesting world in any genre. Her book is set in the 1600s with elements of fantasy.
I think Louise is quite right. If you don't write what you enjoy, whatever that is, you won't write it well enough for another reader.
I wrote something I wanted to read but couldn't find, and which just happened to be HF. I doubt I'll have a bestseller on my hands (I wish!) or even make any money, but if I hadn't written it I would most likely never have gone back to writing in the first place.
Perhaps that was my mistake ;)
There were six histoical fiction novels in the final of the 2012 man booker prize.
It appears that erotic fiction, crime thrillers and historical fiction are in vogue.
There are popular trends of genre from time-to-time, but there is no rosetta stone to fame.
You have to have complete faith in your genre, storyline and plot.