Comments on: More Mystery Books & Series, Fewer Authors…

By: -V-

-V- — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:20:45 +0000

I'd hate that if I were an author. No one can see the future of anything let alone the publishing world and the perceived whims of the reading public. I do my part by reading the not so prolific authors. They have enough people buying their books and I prefer to read a well-written book by someone who is still doing it for the love of writing.

By: Danna - cozy mystery list

Danna - cozy mystery list — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:43:51 +0000

I hate it when that happens, too!

By: Kristan

Kristan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:46:54 +0000

Too bad authors can't be told ahead of time "We want X amount for this series" or "ok wrap this series up in the next book". I hate to read a series, and for it not to be finished, with no next book in site. I just found that out about the Samantha Shaw series by Jennifer Apodaca. If that's the case, why even bother reading the books?

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:06:29 +0000

I have to agree there, I read one of the cozy Authors and they republished the first book in hardcover as fans complained they couldn't find it anymore. no problem there, but what they did that bothered me was they added a new short story (part of the series) to the back of that book and I already had a copy of the main part and didn't want to have it twice. (Lucky I can read fast, and I read the short story in an hour or so at the store.)

By: Maria BearMountainBooks

Maria BearMountainBooks — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:15:08 +0000

I'm ever hopeful that some of those authors will just self-publish a finish to the series (Not a cozy author, but J.A. Konrath did it with "The List" when he couldn't sell it. Though it was rather full of typos that I understand have been cleaned up some, I thought it was one of his best books–if not his best!)

Of course, for most authors, unless they have already written the work, they have to buckle down and try to start a new series that they can sell to a publisher, so it isn't going to be feasible in all cases. It would be nice though–if they just sort of finished the series for all us old fans…

By: Bo

Bo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:20:22 +0000

I'm sorry to hear that the number of authors are being reduced by the publishers. Personally, my book purchases are mostly limited to new authors that I discover when I visit the local book store for that specific purpose. I don't buy the books from established authors; there are plenty of those in the library that I can read at my leisure.