Huge Macs and Whoppers vying to develop into built-in plot gadgets in fiction novels?
Cans of Dr. Pepper defining compelling character arcs in YA/tween fantasy 대리팀?
Hip, younger, internet-aware fiction characters utilizing the dietary and manufacturing recommendation on company web websites to argue their alternative of every little thing from quick meals to underwear?
Pizza Hut Hen Dunkers laid because the irresistible bait to ensnare fantasy creatures possessing a way of style so heightened they’ll spot a tasty and nutritious meal a mile away?
Clever old legendary sages having no must resort to the useful calorie counters to know simply how ‘So Good’ for you KFC Tower Burgers actually are?
Sounds far-fetched, I do know. Scary, even. Center Earth with Golden Arches. Narnia with a drive-thru. Harry Potter accumulating Horcruxes and two-for-one McDonald’s coupons. Scarier, the truth is, than the scariest fiction. Art imitating actuality imitating art imitating… nicely, you get the concept.
However will it occur? Fashionable, streetwise, identifiable characters combating all method of evil… while sipping a refreshing glass of Ocean Spray Orange Juice and consuming a satisfying bowl of Cap’n Crunch that stays crunchy… even in milk. (How does it try this?)
A nightmarish situation, I admit, for readers preferring their cherished childhood recollections unbranded and their literature unsullied by the literary equal of gaudy advertising hoardings.
Welcome to the courageous new world of product placement in books.
Properly, the courageous new world as I see it along side a progressive writer and savvy marketing advisor who suppose outdoors the field.
The extra you consider it, what different future is there? For entrepreneurs and publishers it might but boil right down to a alternative: embrace the sea-