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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
According to this logic an author's first book would be the best book they ever write.
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It suggests that an authors middle works, once they've learnt a bitfrom earlier failures, and are just starting to build up a following, may well be better than their later ones, once they signed the lucrative contracts and each book is a guaranteed seller.
Can you really not think of example of long series of books where towards the end it seems like each new entry is a bit more lackluster than the previous, where they sell because there is an captive audience who will buy it immediately, just to see what happens next, but which wouldn't sell well had it been the first in a series?