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Originally Posted by murg
She may be talking about the agents. There was a recent post on either here or The Digital Reader about the agents only being interesting in the genres that are currently selling.
I don't see Amazon trying to tell authors what to write, they only seem interested in the pricing, being that they are pretty much happy to sell anything.
Then again, maybe she's talking about the publishers...
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When it comes to content, she may be referring to publishers. I read something about her and her agent years ago and it was interesting in that her agent supposedly never pushed her to write particular books (finish series) whereas the publishers wanted this or that and fumed if they didn't get it. She has a very diverse list and if I recall correctly, her agent was happy to let her write whatever she wanted and then sell it.
Some agents will only look at "the next in a series' and many agents do tell the writers "I'd like to see this genre." Some will not even send out books that they don't think will sell. I think the last is a terrible disservice. There must be some publisher somewhere that an agent can send it to. And I'm not talking about "won't send out because it's garbage" I'm talking about, "No one I know is looking for this right now and I don't want to damage my networking by taking a chance."
This happens more than people realize and is one of the prime reasons authors finally go indie. I've spoken with two midlist authors recently -- both had this sort of thing happen.
Of course she is probably taking a dig at Amazon because that's recently been in the news. But if she really believes that then why doesn't she just sell from her blog/website? Her name is known so she could do the marketing and make the sales. When someone talks about "sitting and taking it" well, I always want to know about the supposed alternatives and when that person plans to use those alternatives. She could try it and see if it works. If she isn't happy with the publishers, she could go indie.
There are alternatives today. So go ahead. Jump.