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Originally Posted by stonetools
The reason why indies write genre fiction is because lets face it its rather formulaic and easy to write as in:
Lets apply this formula to fantasy:
Crime/mystery/ thriller
and so on.
Romance?
You plug in whatever variations you want (LGBT? BSDM?) and there you go. That stuff is relatively easy to write (but hard to write really well) and needs no research or in the field investigation ( a la say Murio Puzo's The Godfather )which is why the bulk of indie writers produce it . If you happen to hit on the right variation ( Fifty Shades of Grey) success is yours: if you flop, , you don't lose much except time spent to writing.
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Hmmm...Let's see...
Dune - no research at all was needed, (no BHP would bring it out. Published by an auto repair publisher.)
The Stars My Destination - no research at all needed.
Robert Heinlein once spend 3 days calculating orbital trajectories by hand to put one line in one scene in one book (
Space Cadet). but that was Ok because he was published then by a BHP (who threw him out the door the second they didn't like one of his books.)
The Foundation Trilogy was published by indie publishers.
Shall I go on...