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Originally Posted by Hitch
Uh...something tells me, Cin, that you and he may have different tiers of distinction between honest comments and evil ones. :-)
Was this a traditional author? I mean, trade-pubbed? I saw an author--actually, really, two of them--go in wildly different directions on books, and both were trade-pubbed. I suspect that midlisters that are Indy-pubbing are more responsive to their readers than most others. Bestsellers don't have to, and the others--all those folks crowing about their "experimental" fiction (you know, that experiment that says that you don't need quotation marks, or any mechanism to tell one paragraph from another, and that dialogue paragraphs should be indented, while narrative should be flush-left...) don't seem to give two hoots, or at least, claim that they are indifferent to, reader feedback.
This reminds me of Laurell K. Hamilton. Started out with a perfectly good urban fiction detective/mystery series, and descended like a homesick rock into what can be politely called, er, "romantica?" (Maybe?). I finally gave up on her, quite a few years/books back, but I was pretty disappointed that the series just did a 180 like that. Or maybe even a 270.
Ah, yes, recycled content. A real favorite.
OK--that's a gorge-riser, right there. What author is this? If you wish to say?
Returning this thread to its original topic,
Hitch
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So as not to derail completely will pm you.