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Originally Posted by xyzone
"smart" is a simple word, she's a lucky hack just like many before her.
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I don't know, actually, I don't think she's as bad as Dan Brown. His book was just as poorly written but it was clearly quite a calculated money spinner; he knew what to write that would stir the waters from things he'd already studied. The one that rocketed him to fame also wasn't his first book, Smeyer's was.
Smeyer, in contrast, doesn't have that kind of background to support such a theory. Her writings simply have something in them (a bit mills and boonish, really, with hip goffik overtones) that appeal narrowly to bored housewives and teenage girls; ie females with a strong ability to suspend belief from reality. In other words, she's not smart enough to manipulate the market; she is just already so close to the mindset of her readers that it has massive appeal.