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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1341096" data-attributes="member: 5171">As I said above, I was coming at it from the point of view of the writer.  As the writer, I don't really care why the publishers are doing what they're doing.  Maybe they are being controlled by the marketing departments rather than the editors.  Maybe the bean-counters are in charge now instead.  Maybe the editors are actually trying really hard to make the coolest story ever, and this is honestly how they think it will go.  I don't care about any of it.  All that matters to me personally is the fact that selling a standalone fantasy novel is a lot harder these days.   Not impossible -- nobody's gonna turn down greatness if it smacks them in the face -- but harder.Or, to put it another way, if somebody is kicking me in the shins, I don't care if he's doing it because his friend told him to, because the school bully forced him to, or because I offended him in some way without realizing it.  Mainly, I just care about the fact that some pinhead is kicking me in the shins.I don't believe that was in question.  I like multi-book series as well.  I've also read and enjoyed a number of standalones.  Those are hurting these days.Which is at least in part due to the lack of support from the publishing houses for standalone fiction.  They seem to be following ABC's example for media success: Take something popular ("Who Wants to be a Millionaire"), pump it up with all the publicity you can, spin off a bunch of new cloned products with the same basic premise, overexpose it until people are sick of it, and then pull the plug and declare that it has "run its course".</blockquote>

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