Sentences with phrase «butter midlist»

I suppose we ought to feel pity, but given the abusive relationship they've consistently shown to their bread and butter midlist authors I just can not find it in me.

All the rest — the literary fiction, the cookbooks, the self - help books, the bread and butter midlist books that now make up 80 percent of every publisher's list — those books they'd cherry pick from self - published authors who'd already tested the market and had the credible sales to prove it.