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Originally Posted by Hitch
I wonder. I wonder--a lot--what the sales will be like. Six years is a loooooong damned time to wait for the next book in a series. It'll be interesting to see if people line up for it--having waited all this time--or, if there are more like me, kinda "meh." Or, I guess, not "meh," seriously irritated about the delay in producing it.
I guess you could have an argument about "what does an author really owe his or her fans," and I guess that the real answer would be nothing. An author writes a book, it's released, people like it or don't. Doesn't owe the reading public anything. Sure, granted--but then the inverse argument could be made, that we--the reading public--don't owe that author a damned thing either, least of all our money.
Hitch
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I suspect that at least a percentage of the once hard core Dresden Files fans have the meh response, i.e. they use to be big time members of the fan club, but now they have moved on to other things, on the other hand, it's likely that more people have discovered the series. I would suspect that it's going to make the NYT best seller list.