Yeah, need to flip through each other's catalogs, see what looks like a match, read it to make sure... Not at all trivial...but worth doing!
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Replying to @MorlockP @robkroese and
It’s a question of the general reading audience not usually crossing genres. So fantasy for fantasy and science fi for sci fi and even more narrowed down if possible.
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Replying to @David_JWest @robkroese and
Yep. And style. If I've got hard SF and someone else writes space-prince-and-princess... We're in full agreement.
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Replying to @NotDeadGlomar @JASutherlandBks and
Yes, I'd use different pen names. They can be very similar (John Smith v. John X. Smith) but keep them separate for Amazon's algorithms.
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Replying to @robkroese @NotDeadGlomar and
(That said, I'm all over the place, and I write almost everything under my own name)
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Replying to @robkroese @NotDeadGlomar and
That’s how I was, I just decided to try it out and keep the pen name as a heroic fantasy only and see how it worked coaxing the algorithms. So I’d recommend it.
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Replying to @David_JWest @robkroese and
You guys have more experience, but to play devil's advocate, using a pen name when switching genres sounds like an analog mindset holdover from legacy pub. @Jonspach & @NickColeBooks have said author names don't move the algorithm needle, & Nick always uses his real name.
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I'm basing it off of something @JASutherlandBks told me over lunch (and again, in this thread, I think) that he wrote X, developed fans, wrote Y, pissed off fans
zero data from my own experience: I've just got 2 books + 1 short story!
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Replying to @MorlockP @David_JWest and
I can see that happening, but the game isn't so much author brand loyalty anymore as it is genre loyalty.
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