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Originally Posted by jehane
Pretty sure that midlist refers to sales, not quality (which some people should remember is different to personal taste). I would say that being recognised outside of your genre would take you out of the midlist, as would having tv or movie versions of your work. So Le Guin, Butcher and EL James would not be midlist.
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No way in hell Butcher and James are midlist (I'm not sure how well Le Guin actually sells, but I'd imagine she is also not midlist). Butcher's books hit #1 on the NYT Best Seller list and James has probably sold more books in the past couple years than anyone that isn't Stephanie Myers.