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Old 04-23-2009, 07:13 AM   #22
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Is that a bad thing? The books mentioned as the ones Buran liked (Dresden, Anita Blake, Tanya Huff) are all series, and pretty much any successful urban fantasy novel these days becomes a series, so I don't see why it's bad or surprising.
It's annoying to me because I like stand alone novels and I don't want it to be the case that new authors *have* to write a series in order to get published. But agents and publishers push series because that reduces their risk. You see the same problem with movies these days.
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