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The main word I heard the last few years from writers was “freedom.” It seems that suddenly we all feel free to write what we want, not what we think some editor and sales force might like.
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Back in the era of lack of freedom, what was being written about? And now that writers are free, what's different?
I suppose that if you go back around sixty years, you could say explicit sex was forbidden, at least in Boston. But DW Smith seems to be talking about a far more recent change.
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Readers want more books and stories from favorite authors and don’t understand the “only one book per year” thinking of traditional publishers.
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Not this reader.
Last month I attended a speech given by my favorite genre author,
Archer Mayor. It's not his publisher keeping him to one book a year. He just can't write any faster and be satisfied with the product.
Mayor is also a part-time cop (his word), so you could say that he could quit law enforcement and write more. But, then, he wouldn't be writing about what he knows.