If your tie-in novel sells poorly, however, the blame will likely be laid at your feet -- "This should have sold much better; after all, it's Star Wars. Must be the writer."
Something else to consider, which I hadn't thought of; the books for a particular franchise -- say, STAR WARS -- tend, with a couple of exceptions, to sell pretty much evenly. If it's a new tie-in, no one knows how it's going to do at the outset; if it's established, there's a fairly good idea, although numbers can decline over time, to the point where some are simply ended.
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Date: 2004-08-30 09:28 pm (UTC)Something else to consider, which I hadn't thought of; the books for a particular franchise -- say, STAR WARS -- tend, with a couple of exceptions, to sell pretty much evenly. If it's a new tie-in, no one knows how it's going to do at the outset; if it's established, there's a fairly good idea, although numbers can decline over time, to the point where some are simply ended.