How do you keep your backlist sales healthy? I've noticed that outside of crime, where backlist sales always seem to be fairly respectable (even years after publication) most other genres, especially thriller, seem to fall away. It's like there are simply no new readers coming onto the market, which of course is not true. So how come there were enough new readers for good backlist sales in 2018 but not in 2020? There isn't that much more competition now. Is it the cost of ads? I have watched backlist sales tumble to the point where a book is only making money for a few months and then it's as good as dead. This is forcing me to write in genres with better backlist sustainability, like crime and while this is a solution, it's frustrating having so many books on the market (some bestsellers, high aggregate reviews and big sales) that now apparently no one wants to look at.
Wasss goin on?
Wasss goin on?
