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Originally Posted by darryl
Another relevant link, this time to a blog post by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in my opinion one of the more insightful commentators. http://kriswrites.com/2015/08/12/bus...-it-does-best/ Once again, the post speaks for itself, and I won't comment further at this stage. A relevant extract (referring to Mike Shatzkin and "his traditional publishing friends":
They also don’t understand something: they’ve lost hundreds if not thousands of important writers (no quotes). People like Elizabeth Spann Craig and Barry Eisler and J.A. Konrath. Writers like the ones in the Storybundle that I curated this month. Every single book, by every one of those writers, is indie published. |
She and some of the authors mentioned are the sort of authors that I've long thought would make out the best in the indie/ebook world. They have enough of a fan base that they have a floor to their expected sales and a combination of facebook and a website would probably be enough to let the fan base know when a new work was out.
While I haven't read most of those authors, I have read (and liked) Barry Eisler. IMPO, Eisler is one of those authors I think of as "one good book" authors. He had one good book in him, then has struggled to regain that magic. His first book, Rain Fall was really good. The next one was ok, but wasn't anything that I was going to stay up at night reading. The third one wasn't quite as good as the second and I didn't finish the 4th. That's when I stopped buying his books. Perhaps some of his books after 2005 turned out well, I don't know. That particular pattern is actually fairly common with authors. The fans still love him and buy his books, but he doesn't really grow his fan base. It use to be that authors like this would bounce around between publishers after three or four books of medium sales. Now, they can go indie. I think it's a very good match.