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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
It's a problem for a lot of people because their series gets cancelled. I see complaints about this all the time on reader forums. Why isn't so and so putting out another book in the such and such series? Just last week the cozy group ladies were complaining about all the cozy authors who were switching from their old series to writing paranormal cozies. At least 5 said they were "done" with trying that genre. Well, that genre was selling. Their other series were either cancelled or put on hold. That is a sales problem. Once a series is cancelled, it isn't likely to come back.
A lucky few authors may be able to write another book in the old series and self-publish, but most will move on to what the publisher requires/wants.
This is as it ever was. When someone isn't making money (or enough money), production stops--whether that is the author or the publisher, it impacts the consumer who liked that product!
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Way back when I was in my early teens and first started buying books with my lunch money (which started me on my life long tendency to eat one big meal a day
) I didn't understand the author/publisher dynamic and was very unforgiving towards authors who didn't resolve a series. I still won't buy a solo Roland Green book because of where he left things in his Wandor Series. I suppose that one day, I ought to forgive him.
. [I still say that authors shouldn't drag a series out like that. ]