Book ethics, now in convenient poll form!

[megwrites]

[Poll #1327486]


ETA: Just to clarify, the six book series in question is in the exact same genre as the "debut novel"

Comments

[fiction-theory.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. Honestly? It probably would've done the author more good to bank on their own name (I mean, obviously the previous series did well enough that the publisher went in for SIX books) than for them to go through the motions of trying to establish a "new" writer.

The only weird logic I can ascribe to it is that the previous series is a rather Robert Jordanesque flavor of high fantasy and the other is sort of alt-history fantasy, and maybe they felt that would be too much of a crossover? But still, I mean, if authors can go from spaceships to vampires - I don't think this is too much of a stretch, which makes it even stupider and worse.

If I were inclined to be incredibly, unbelievably snarky, I'd say that the one appropriate thing about labeling this author as being new is that he's still making rookie mistakes.