Writing thoughts: Discuss amongst yourself.

[pen37]

Partially due to the shrinking economy, a lot of the larger (and not so large) publishing houses are tightening their budget and dumping whole lines of genre fiction. The most recent of these was Five Star, where a number of friends and aquaintances have their work placed. They just dumped their entire line of mass market sciene fiction and fantasy

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[pen37]

Part of the problem is that the people making the decisions are the bean counters. Most publishers have been trying for years to take advantage of the internet, but they can't figure out how to make money doing so.

Until something viable comes out that causes them to sit up and take notice, most will continue down the same old path.

[pen37]

*nods*

And Amazon has done a lot. Then there have been the podio books. In fact, the internet has made it a lot easier for smaller press and self-publishers to find a market.

[pen37]

There are more options -- if that's the way you choose to go. I did (Because I still tend to write hard-to-classify novels that weigh in at 50,000 words

[pen37]

Oh no, not at all. In fact, as soon as I write something that I feel *can* be placed at a big house, I *will* try that route.

but hard-to-classify short southern gothic gonzo whodunnit mysteries are not that thing.