Just Whinging

Although more of a British term, this really does qualify more as whinging than whining according to the definitions. But I'm not here to throw around definitions, I'm here on full whinge-rant mode.

It started with my usual checking out of the Top 100 Kindle book links when I came across this

The Proposition (Billionaire boss) a SEXY romance erotic short

Megan is amazed when her fabulously rich and handsome boss decides to give her a very no-strings, very sexual proposition. She already found him highly desirable and he’d certainly assured her that no matter her answer, he’d respect it. So what was it going to be?

"Oh Jen, you dirty girl!" you cry between mouthfuls of Doritos (I don't judge my readers), "You've been looking through the Romance section of the Kindle store again, haven't you?"

No, you know where I found this?

Science Fiction/Fantasy where it is currently #1 in the bestseller category.

Wait what?

Did I miss something in the description? Is Megan actually a robot? Or mister "billionaire boss" is from another planet, right? Where a ship crashed and there are symbiotic telepathic cats?

Yes, it is technically "fantasy" but not of the swords and sorcery type that is implied. That's why there is a romance section, people can keep their trashy smut in a separate category so that the nerds of the world don't get lightheaded and pass out from the cover alone.

Whoever wrote this book must look at a library and see it broken down into just two categories "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction" where everything is simply shelved as is with no regard toward any narrowed genre.

Yes, I admit romance and fantasy often blur lines, especially urban fantasy (examples include: vampiesvampiresvampiresvampiresvampires) and romance, but when the only "fantasy" are two people getting hot and heavy, and not one mention of anything even slightly fantastical in nature, you're publishing in the wrong categories.

While I'm still in a whinging mood, let's keep going.

Lost in Minecraft: A Minecraft Novel Ft Sky and Captain Sparklez

What
the
actual
trebuchet.

To keep this blog's language PG-13 a trebuchet has been chosen to fling 4 letter words in lieu of the author herself.

Even if you know who Skydoesminecraft and Captainsparklez are, you have to admit this is pretty stupid. Why pick specifically on Lost in Minecraft: A Minecraft Novel Ft Sky and Captain Sparklez (which will now be shortened to LiM:AMNFSaCP) when there are dozens of others?

Because it is #707 in the overall Kindle bestsellers and, narrowing it down, #10 in the Fantasy section.

Who in the hell is buying this? Eight year olds? With Kindles? This costs three dollars! Eight year olds, with Kindles, are throwing money at a book based on a blocky videogame that stars people named Skydoesminecraft and Captain Sparklez.

"This book is so awesome. I hope their will be more books about it. Go sky!! Yay. I really love this book"

Real review there people, 2 out of 3 people apparently thinking it's quite helpful, too.

Yes, eight year olds (did I mention they have Kindles?) can throw money at whatever they want I suppose, but the problem is that we have someone who probably didn't even ask for permission from Mojang (the company that owns the rights to Minecraft), Skydoesminecraft, or Captainsparklez before writing and publishing fanfiction that the author is making money from.

Worst of all, being in the top anything category, it pushes out good books from top categories with its garbage.

Okay, whinge over.