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Namekuseijin · 12-02-2011, 12:34 PM

Why is it that anything created today has to automatically be a series?

You often listen of something like "the new series X by newcomer author Y". WTF?! Why should I care that some new unproven author has come up with some lame new series? Can we even call one book alone as part of a series? If it doesn't make any profit, will any further books in the "series" ever be published?

People used to write stories back then. If the story was good enough and characters became popular with the audience, they could eventually come back in further stories. It is the very case of Sherlock Holmes. It's not like Conan Doyle got up one day and said "well, I should make up a new series about a consulting detective". He was even annoyed at the popularity of the short stories and tried to kill the character and left it in the fridge for several years! Imagine some author/publisher doing it these days...

rant off.

12-02-2011, 12:34 PM	#1
Namekuseijin affordable chipmunk Posts: 1,290 Karma: 9863855 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brazil Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite	Series, series and more damned series! Why is it that anything created today has to automatically be a series? You often listen of something like "the new series X by newcomer author Y". WTF?! Why should I care that some new unproven author has come up with some lame new series? Can we even call one book alone as part of a series? If it doesn't make any profit, will any further books in the "series" ever be published? People used to write stories back then. If the story was good enough and characters became popular with the audience, they could eventually come back in further stories. It is the very case of Sherlock Holmes. It's not like Conan Doyle got up one day and said "well, I should make up a new series about a consulting detective". He was even annoyed at the popularity of the short stories and tried to kill the character and left it in the fridge for several years! Imagine some author/publisher doing it these days... rant off.