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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Fantasy author Paul Kearney ran into a situation where his planned four-book series "The Sea Beggars" was dropped in 2007 after two installments. Dropped, as in Bantam didn't want to publish it any more ... but neither would they release the rights to the author or even allow the rights to be sold. They just sat on it. The guy darn near quit writing because of it. But he stuck it out and is making a a bit of comeback with a new publisher and new books.
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He need a better agent. Even first time authors can get "play or pay" provisions. And if they can't, then writing (and publishing through the big 6) is dead as a profession.
(And if he doesn't have anything else to write besides that one four book series, then, well, what's he going to do after those four books?)