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A new article by the NY times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/b...-cramp-a-book-a-year-is-slacking.html?_r=1&hp
Okay, a bit of mixed feelings here. On one hand, if you consider yourself a professional writer and your goal is to make a good living in the business - then yes, writing only one book a year is slacking. IMO.
Then there are the G.R.R.M's out there that I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of in between the release of their novels. A short story would be, frankly AMAZING and many of his fans would gobble those up like hungry, hungry hippos!
On the other hand, I don't want my favorite authors pushed to produce crappy books.
Too many of those can turn me off of a favorite author. :/
Opinions?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/b...-cramp-a-book-a-year-is-slacking.html?_r=1&hp
The push for more material comes as publishers and booksellers are desperately looking for ways to hold onto readers being lured by other forms of entertainment, much of it available nonstop and almost instantaneously. Television shows are rushed online only hours after they are originally broadcast, and some movies are offered on demand at home before they have left theaters. In this environment, publishers say, producing one a book a year, and nothing else, is just not enough.
Okay, a bit of mixed feelings here. On one hand, if you consider yourself a professional writer and your goal is to make a good living in the business - then yes, writing only one book a year is slacking. IMO.
Then there are the G.R.R.M's out there that I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of in between the release of their novels. A short story would be, frankly AMAZING and many of his fans would gobble those up like hungry, hungry hippos!
On the other hand, I don't want my favorite authors pushed to produce crappy books.
Too many of those can turn me off of a favorite author. :/
Opinions?