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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 9123038" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>But it doesn't apply to only GRRM. It has applied to <em>many authors</em> who experience sudden<strong><em> immense mainstream success. </em></strong>You mention Lynch, who has had some success with Locke Lamora and the <em>Gentlemen Bastards.</em> Problem is, that's small scale; the sort of genre success that GRRM had in his first three novels. It isn't success like <em>ASoIaF</em> post <em>ASoS</em>.</p><p></p><p>To get to that level of success, the only other contemporary fantasy author who has enjoyed that degree of financial success on the bestseller lists -- and the fat cheques coming from Hollywood to buy the rights to his series -- you would have to go to Patrick Rothfuss and the <em>Kingkiller Chronicles</em>. And his publication history literally stalls and slides into GRRM's "rut of non-progress" <em>precisely when</em> he struck it rich, too. Not GRRM levels of rich, no, but very few fantasy authors become overnight millionaires. Like GRRM, Rothfuss is the exception (in terms of commercial success) and so falls within the same "rule" that nothing motivates a muse like a landlord with an outstretched hand.</p><p></p><p>When you look at the publishing history of major novelists who have become <em>ridiculously wealthy</em> and yet turn out product regularly and on time? It's quite a short list, really. And when you stop and really look at it, the success and sheer focus that Stephen King and JK Rowling had as writers -- all while experiencing wealth in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- is truly exceptional. </p><p></p><p>And perhaps that is simply human nature. Were I to put myself in GRRM's fiscal shoes? I'd probably be just the same. If I win a lottery for millions of dollars, there will certainly be "signs". And one of those signs will be me not going to work this Monday -- or any Monday after it until the end of my life. So, to be fair, I get it. </p><p></p><p>Still sucks as a fan though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 9123038, member: 20741"] But it doesn't apply to only GRRM. It has applied to [I]many authors[/I] who experience sudden[B][I] immense mainstream success. [/I][/B]You mention Lynch, who has had some success with Locke Lamora and the [I]Gentlemen Bastards.[/I] Problem is, that's small scale; the sort of genre success that GRRM had in his first three novels. It isn't success like [I]ASoIaF[/I] post [I]ASoS[/I]. To get to that level of success, the only other contemporary fantasy author who has enjoyed that degree of financial success on the bestseller lists -- and the fat cheques coming from Hollywood to buy the rights to his series -- you would have to go to Patrick Rothfuss and the [I]Kingkiller Chronicles[/I]. And his publication history literally stalls and slides into GRRM's "rut of non-progress" [I]precisely when[/I] he struck it rich, too. Not GRRM levels of rich, no, but very few fantasy authors become overnight millionaires. Like GRRM, Rothfuss is the exception (in terms of commercial success) and so falls within the same "rule" that nothing motivates a muse like a landlord with an outstretched hand. When you look at the publishing history of major novelists who have become [I]ridiculously wealthy[/I] and yet turn out product regularly and on time? It's quite a short list, really. And when you stop and really look at it, the success and sheer focus that Stephen King and JK Rowling had as writers -- all while experiencing wealth in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- is truly exceptional. And perhaps that is simply human nature. Were I to put myself in GRRM's fiscal shoes? I'd probably be just the same. If I win a lottery for millions of dollars, there will certainly be "signs". And one of those signs will be me not going to work this Monday -- or any Monday after it until the end of my life. So, to be fair, I get it. Still sucks as a fan though. [/QUOTE]
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