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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I would say it's more about finding things to read that the mainstream publishers have either lost interest in or never had any interest in to start with. I always use the example of a fictional book set within the seedy world of professional snail racing. It's never going to be a best seller, so no publisher would touch it, but anyone with a passing interest in snail racing will want to read it. it's about being a small fish in a puddle. Writing within the mainstream you'll just be swamped by all the other writers, unless you're extremely lucky.
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. I have a view that there are many readers out there who will read mainstream fiction regardless of whether it is trad published or self published and THOSE readers are my audience.
Granted that getting my book to rise above the noise is danged hard and it might never happen. But that same is true for trad publishing as well. Just because a mainstream book is trad published doesn't make it a best seller. It might sell a few copies more than mine but the challenges those book face post publishing are no different to the challenges mine face.