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Originally Posted by Crossroad Press
one book a year is a ridiculously low output.
-DNW
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You are the publisher, and I'm just a reader, and one should never make too much of a soundbite like this -- but it doesn't sound like you competing to be the next Maxwell Perkins in terms of kindness to your authors. Or is tough love what you think they need?
I want to learn from what I read, even fiction. So the author has to do research. The one series where I look forward to the new book each fall is by police procedural author Archer Mayor, who generally acknowledges a boatload of law enforcement people. Plus he has had a series of volunteer and/or part time law enforcement jobs. I couldn't trust him to explain modern detective work if he sat at home grinding out a couple thousand words a day.