Over a dozen major holidays are celebrated during the month of December, yet so pervasive is Christmas in Western culture that folks interested in collecting genre fiction devoted to other December holidays have their work cut out for them.
Read any good Advent-themed genre fiction recently? What about Las Posadas-themed genre fiction? Soyaluna-themed genre fiction?
If not, is it because such holidays have not "gone secular" to the degree that Christmas has?
Genre fiction does exist for other December holidays, but most of it seems geared to the juvenile marketplace. Is this because there are at least a few authors out there who don't want kids feeling bad that their holiday doesn't generate the widespread celebrations that Christmas does?
We're not talking small markets here. The potential market for adult genre fiction geared to other December holidays appears to be quite large, but most of the focus seems to be resolutely on juvenile markets:
While one certainly is pleased to see that a major holiday like Chanuka attracts publishers interested in the juvenile market...
...where's the bibliomystery featuring the Jewish bookseller that accidentally gets ensared in the daring theft of a rare and valuable Torah while trying to prepare his youngest child for her first celebration of Chanuka?
Are authors and publishers missing out on several potential major markets for adult genre fiction by well-nigh ignoring every December holiday but Christmas...?
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