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<\/a>If you dissed Prince so soon after his death and all the memorials praising his genius, you’d be endlessly re-tweeted on Twitter. Now, people do respond to the 5 Ways to De-Clutter Your Sock Drawer blogs, but when a blogger targets somebody popular, it’s like swatting a bee hive with a bat.<\/p>\nYou can do better than that, though: don’t just attack a person, attack a <\/em>whole genre.\u00a0 Look at Curtis Sittenfeld.\u00a0 Never heard of her?\u00a0 That’s true for lots of readers.\u00a0 But she recently generated a ton of publicity by saying that most romance novels are badly written.<\/p>\n Bingo!\u00a0 She got tons of press and widespread attacks by romance writers and readers.<\/p>\n Of course, she was after bigger game than blog readers because she was publishing an updated version <\/a>of Pride and Prejudice<\/em> which she thinks is a romance.\u00a0 But the strategy could work just as well for you: diss a popular genre with a provocative blog title, and watch the comments mount.\u00a0 Try writing a blog “Crime Fiction is Crap.”<\/p>\n The comments won’t be pretty. You’ll get dissed as a hack or moron or worse.\u00a0 Ignore all that.\u00a0 Ignore all<\/em> the negatives, because what’s the point of getting into a conversation with someone who wants to insult you?\u00a0 Just watch for the people who agree–because those people will show up, too.\u00a0 And who knows, they might stick around….<\/p>\n So you’ve started your blog and there’s minimal traffic? A sure-fire way to generate an audience is to write smack about somebody famous, especially if that celebrity just died. Just see what would happen if you blogged that Prince’s music was over-rated, that he hadn’t really written any hits lately, that he was derivative, that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,1],"tags":[442,714,713,184,183,182,718,249,719,715,716,717,192,98],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-uncategorized","tag-advice-for-bloggers","tag-advice-for-blogging","tag-blogger","tag-bloggers","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-curtis-sittenfeld","tag-edith-wharton","tag-genre-fiction","tag-jane-austen","tag-marketing-strategies","tag-prince","tag-publicity","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Lev Raphael is author of The Edith Wharton Murders<\/a> and 24 other books in genres from mystery to memoir.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"