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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's the trouble, isn't it? You only get one chance to make a first impression, as the old saying goes and if that first impression is bad, most readers won't be back to try more books by the same author; there are too many good books out there for it to be worth spending time doing so.
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Unfortunately for the readers, there is an easy way around that:
Authors can have multiple pen names, so what on the face of it might look like an author publishing one book per year could actually be someone churning out six books per year under six different pen names.
Pen names also allow authors to publish poor quality books without any consequences for their reputation, since they can simply switch to a new pen name once word gets around about the old one.
(Edit: The author being published by a well-known publisher helps with the second part though, because then the publisher has their own reputation on the line as well.)