Tropes
June 16, 2023 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Coral Ballroom A
BookTok has been criticized for its use of tropes to describe, categorize and recommend books, a trend we see trickling into how authors market their books. What are the pros and cons of this sort of marketing? When is “tropey” a bad thing and when is it exactly what we want? And of course, what are our favorite and least favorite tropes?