{"id":2186,"date":"2010-02-11T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2010-02-11T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:07:39","slug":"whos-selling-what-and-are-you-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/whos-selling-what-and-are-you-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s selling what, and are you buying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I begin this post, I want to say<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Happy Birthday<\/strong><\/span> and heapings and heapings of love to my &#8216;<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>little guy<\/em>&#8216; <\/span>who turned 7 today. This momentous event means\u00a0 lunch (his favourite, McDonald&#8217;s) with him at his school and cupcakes for everyone! Real party is on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to book talk.\u00a0 I started contemplating this question last night. <strong>Which publishing house do you purchase most of your historical romances from?<\/strong> I must admit, when I first started reading single title, I didn&#8217;t really notice or care. I definitely knew <strong>Harlequin <\/strong>because of their categories (which I consumed at unparalleled speeds), but other than them, for the longest while I only cared about the author. Now, that isn&#8217;t to say that I don&#8217;t anymore. Oh, I very much do. However, I have noticed over the years that my go-to, <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>instant-buy<\/em><\/span> author list is getting much shorter. So short in fact, I probably only have 3 or 4 on that list right now.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the authors I absolutely adored, have switched publishing houses, or have taken to writing in a different sub-genre, or have gone mainstream. Some of the authors who have switched publishing houses and still continue to write historical romances&#8230; their books are just not the same anymore. Sure it could be the passing of time that has made the difference (their writing has changed), but it also could be a new publishing house, a new editor, a new set of expectations. Of course I can never know which of those things it really is, I just know something is very different about their stories and my connection to them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what got me thinking as I stared at the mountain of books in my closet last night. Do I have an implicit trust in a particular publishing house to deliver quality, engaging stories by great authors? Or is my sole trust with that particular author to do so no matter which publishing house they are with? Once upon a time I would have said, my sole loyalty is to the author. My view has shifted somewhat since then as I think it falls somewhere in between, although more weight still goes to the author. For new authors, I would say more weight goes to the publishing house. I see trends in certain publishing houses and always take note. If I read\u00a0 books of 2 (two) new authors from <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Publishing House A<\/strong><\/span> and I don&#8217;t particularly like them, more often than not I won&#8217;t pick up another new author from them unless the book comes highly recommended by someone I trust and knows my tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been hearing from readers, friends, fellow authors, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Publishing House A<\/strong><\/span> only publishes <em>these<\/em> kinds of stories, or <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Publishing House B<\/span><\/strong> only likes authors with this particular kind of voice. Yesterday, one of my writer friends said that a reader told her how refreshing her book was as she was used to reading a certain type of books from <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Publishing House C<\/strong><\/span>. As a writer, I find all of this information very interesting and eye-opening. Are readers taking note of this too?<\/p>\n<p>What about you? If you were to peruse your bookshelf, which publisher dominates your historical romance collection? 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