Re: Successful Series
- From: jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll)
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:22:51 +0000 (UTC)
In article <YG1Jh.290$y56.149@trnddc07>, lclough <clough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jonathan L Cunningham wrote:Merely for the sake of completism, I offer "the writer is
I just read the "Publicity" thread, and was reminded of something
puzzling I came across, by chance, in Wikipedia.
Apparently Piers Anthony has written 8 books in the "Incarnations of
Immortality" series. (I've got the first six, but I hadn't realised
there was a 7th.)
Of the 8th, the article claims "publishers were not interested in
continuing the Incarnations of Immortality series even though they sold
well". The book has apparently been written but not published.
Why would they do that? (Drop a successful series?)
I can think of two explanations: the series was decreasingly successful,
or the gap between the 7th and 8th books was too long.
In the latter case, wouldn't it be an excuse to re-issue the entire
series?
I can think of a third reason, which may be generally summarized
as publisher foolishness. They could have decided to drop their
entire fantasy line, instead devoting all the slots to much more
lucrative romance novels. The one editor who passionately
believed in the series is now gone and no other editor is
willing to pick up the ball and run. The art department
quarreled fatally with the cover artist whose imprint is iconic
for the series. They have decided to reorient their entire F&SF
line in a direction uncongenial to the Anthony series, like say
hard military SF or fat novels about young magicians at school.
a pain to deal with." Of course, no examples come to mind.
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