TikTok Loves Book 'Tropes' and Authors Feel Pressure to Use Them
On TikTok, readers often describe books by their "tropes," or recurring narrative devices. For authors, the focus on tropes can feel limiting.
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On TikTok, readers often describe books by their "tropes," or recurring narrative devices. For authors, the focus on tropes can feel limiting.
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Have you heard of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”? If you haven’t, consider yourself one of the few people on earth who hasn’t. This book currently is one of the most popular books on Goodreads, bolstered by the support of what has become known as “BookTok” — TikTok users whose content centralizes on books […]
Alex Aster "posted into the void" and pitched her book to TikTok. Now she's an executive producer on the movie adaptation of her New York Times best-selling novel.