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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who has been tangent to the writing and publishing world for 25 years, keep in mind the landscape has changed dramatically. Odds are good that neither King or Grisham would be published today. The reading market has changed (collapsed), attention spans have changed (collapsed). Books are still being published but it's a much narrower range of books being published. Just look at the new arrivals if you're at a bookstore and compare to what it was like in 1995.

You really need to know your target audience and write extremely well to that audience. Too many write for the audiences of the past, not tomorrow. But it is unpredictable what the audience of tomorrow is like. Statistically speaking, it's a smaller pool of liberal progressive females, which is why so much of new fiction is dominated by what this group wants. If you're not writing to this demographic, good luck. And even writing styles have changed. The standard 400 page, 100k word book of the 1990s has shrunk to half that. Prose is simpler. The complex, in depth novels are long gone with the very rare exception. [/quote]

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