And honestly, as a life -
long midlist writer, I find that normal.
Not exact matches
That sound you hear is all the
midlist authors who had been cut loose by publishers
long before Amazon became the whipping boy of the traditional publishing industry.
From misguided agents to cruel or absent editors to the callous slashing of
midlist authors and backlist titles, the
longer a writer is in the publishing world, the more chance of encountering at least one of these major (and sometimes career - freezing) hurdles.
I know what support the
midlist get, which is a
long way under that.
We discovered that the «honeymoon period» of a new book is
longer for
midlist titles.
Sadly, this is no
longer the case for
midlist and below, at least according to a great many sources.
That's the purpose of my Amazon Author Page, my periodic book promotions (ummm, no
longer through
Midlist) and my website.
At the same time, [readers] need to be exposed to the
long tail, the
midlist, the backlist, the genre fiction.