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Originally Posted by anamardoll
You forgot Harry Potter, and I actually like Stieg Larsson, so there's that. Furthermore, the success of all these books can't be divorced from the marketing. If you want to use Twilight as an example that the gatekeepers we have suck, I would point out that Twilight was not self-published, so it's just as much an argument that the big houses aren't doing their job of peer review and editing.  |
The publishers didn't "suck" in this regard. In fact, they did a fabulous job in taking 3 mediocre authors and made them (and their estate), their agents, publishers, retailers and printers millions of dollars. The publishers performed their job so perfectly I hope they received bonuses.