They are changing the landscape in a fundamental way, and it's not necessarily going to be great for the novelist, especially for
midlist novelists.
There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians,
midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.
Not exact matches
«We are literary
novelists, Pulitzer Prize - winning journalists, and poets; thriller writers and debut and
midlist authors.
With
midlist advances plummeting, trad pub
novelists need to sell several novels per year to make that, these days.