[ SECRET POST #2616 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2616 ⌋

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Comments

[truxillogical]

IMHO, there's a lot more shifting the wind to those sails than just aSoIaF. There's teen fantasy fiction emerging as a hugely lucrative genre (and generally, teen fiction is most lucrative if it stays down to three or four books that can, hopefully, be published within a year or two at most of each other, because teens are only teens for so long), instead of a small niche market. There's the popularity of quick urban fantasy series like True Blood (with a nice, ready-made audience coming from the older teens). There just plain burn-out, which happens to the genre at least once a decade or so anyway. GRRM has some influence, perhaps, but it can't all be squarely laid at his feet. If anything, I would think the audience-spanning success of GoT would make some publishers more likely to take a risk on a new fantasy author. Although, no, they probably wouldn't be willing to risk a new author with a big long series, but that has almost always been the case. Most writers had to make their bones with short stories at the very least before they got trusted with that kind of investment.