CryoNet #32792 - #32793

CryoNet - Tue 24 Aug 2010

    #32792: Re: Marketing cryonics [David Stodolsky]
    #32793: Re: Marketing cryonics [Chrissie de Rivaz]

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Message #32792
Subject: Re: Marketing cryonics
From: David Stodolsky <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:42:09 +0200
References: <[email protected]>

On 23 Aug 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you want to sell a book including cryonics to women, cryonics will have to 
> play a secondary role. For example, a plot of the family relationships that 
> develop when a suspended husband reappears and wants his 'old' wife back, who in
> the meantime has remarried could be interesting.<<<<<<<
> 
> Interestingly, my proposal was based on relationships. Briefly, the story centres on complex family relationships. It concerns a woman dealing with 'empty nest syndrome' initially and a stale marriage. One son wants cryonics: the father (a pathologist)opposes it:  mother supports son and becomes interested herself. The two other siblings have mixed feelings so plenty of opportunity for discussions. The son becomes terminally ill so the final decision had to be made quickly, taking his other relationships into consideration. 
> 
> But ... as I say, I don't have the appropriate qualifications (fame, football, politician, TV chef or even a model!)and the publishing market is currently pretty dire. Taking a gamble is a long lost art.
> 
> 
> Chrissie de Rivaz

The plot seems too centered on cryonics and not on the potential new types of relationship problems that cryonics could create. It seems that the same plot could revolve around a novel drug that cost a lot of money, for example. Therefore, the reader isn't presented with new types of relationship problems or possibilities. 

It is clear the old story line of getting married and living happily ever after, which still appears to be the main theme of many novels of this type, is becoming more and more unrealistic as life spans increase. It originates in the early biblical period when life expectation was about twenty years. So, a lifelong marriage would last fifteen years on the average. Due to the 1/4 year per year increase in life expectation over the last couple of hundred years, lifelong marriage is more like fifty years today. This has increased the apparent divorce rate and triggered new patterns of marriage. Some try to continue in the traditional pattern and the result is serial monogamy. Others adopt open marriage strategies, groups marriage, polyamory, etc. So, this is what I mean when I say new types o
 f family relationships. 

As technology develops, we will see vastly extended life spans and people returning from suspension, either with or without previous partners. Plenty of new relationship combinations are available. However, in this type of story, cryonics and other life extension modifications would not be the central point. These new developments would play no more a central role then a liver transplant would play in a modern day story. 


dss


David Stodolsky
[email protected]  Skype: davidstodolsky

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Message #32793
From: "Chrissie de Rivaz" <[email protected]>
References: <BBD84B3DBE384D8A88EC5A599ED7CBF1@p4dc>
Subject: Re: Marketing cryonics
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:06:21 +0100

I do agree with much of what David Stodolsky is saying ... conventional novels aimed at female readership are a pretty cliched genre. Looking at the future implications of revivals, eg finding a new marriage might have taken place, as he suggests, mean the novel moves into a different genre. It is of necessity set in the future. There lies one of the many problems. Taking on something of this nature is considered to be set in the sci-fi genre ... thus not targeting women as the prime market. Too much 'relationship' emphasis is not a male target market. It is also very difficult to ge tinto the sci-fi and fantasy markets. 
Self publishing may be popular and not too expensive these days but marketing is rarely successful and very time consuming. Facebook and Twitter and so on, can be used but people still have to be persuaded to buy!  

Chrissie

http://www.ChrissieLoveday.com 
http://www.Rough-Clay.com 


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