I think maybe readers can navigate this better than it first seems--my experience from the reader side of the fence, even before I started writing, has always been that I can be comfortable saying: Okay, I adore this series by this writer; this other series by them, not so much; but of course I'm going to try said writer's new book, just to find out if it is maybe one I'll adore as well. So long as I get books that are what I want about half the time, I'll keep coming back.
It's only after several misfires for me as a reader that I'll--not stop reading, even then, but wait for a paperback or used or borrowed or library copy before trying a writer's next book. And even then, I'm willing to be won back.
But I think--anecdotally, and of course I have a much smaller sample group than you do as a bookseller--that readers can understand about a writer writing more than one sort of book, and navigate that to find the books by that writer that they like.
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Date: 2007-04-03 03:06 pm (UTC)It's only after several misfires for me as a reader that I'll--not stop reading, even then, but wait for a paperback or used or borrowed or library copy before trying a writer's next book. And even then, I'm willing to be won back.
But I think--anecdotally, and of course I have a much smaller sample group than you do as a bookseller--that readers can understand about a writer writing more than one sort of book, and navigate that to find the books by that writer that they like.