Dave wrote:
"I'm not sure I buy that the PI has fallen out of favor.
Block, Crais, Connelly, Deaver, Coben, Mosley all sell a ton
of books, but I think we're increasingly seeing the larger
publishing houses falling into this superstar mentality - if
a book doesn't look like its going to sell a gazillion copies
all at once, the houses seem less likely take on a book or
promote it. So the only PI books that get any promotion and
mass distribution each year are the couple of dozen from the
superstar authors."
But now there are a number of alternative distribution
options. And I'm not aware of their putting out a whole hell
of a lot of PI books either. There's yours, Fast Lane, Fade
to Blonde and Little Lost Girl from Hard Case. Others? Are
there other new PI writers? I'd really like to know about any
I'm missing.
Mark
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