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Sean Danker wrote the novel “Admiral” in 2016, a tale of four castaways who have to cross a hostile planet to survive. Three are fresh out of their service academies traveling to their first service assignment. The fourth is the Admiral – an individual unlike any admiral the three newbies have ever met. That was five novels ago. The series was dropped by Penguin, the original publisher. Danker is continuing it independently.
Am intrigued.
Added: Is there a story to go with Danker’s being dropped by Penguin?
Good question.
Not enough sales.
Your story needs a lot of work.
Never heard of this series. Always looking for good sci-fi series that are good which are not about about being the Messiah and saving all of man kind (it seems so many good series in the last 10 years debase them selves into this religious like cult story plot). Pricing is sort of messed up. Usually you want to price the first book in a large series lower than the rest. The new release in the series. Not almost three times higher.
Well, that’s weird if the previous books were earning out. Is the company as a whole in trouble?
It could also be they were not politically correct enough. But a lot of publishers cancel series if the first two books don’t do “The Martian” level sales when released. If you go to Sarah Hoyt’s website (accordingtohoyt.com) or read some of the stuff at madgeniusclub.com you will discover how whimsical publishing is nowadays. And since those promoting marketing at most NYC publishers are typically woke 20-somthing Grrrls! if the book does not meet their tastes it gets an inadequate roll-out.
Thanks. I get some insider view of this from Brad Torgersen and Corriea, on their respective FB pages, where Hoyt occasionally comments. Nice to see her mentioned again on Ricochet. Get out there and buy Conservative/Libertarian SF you slouches!
Oh, and start reading Analog if you don’t already. There are many contributors who share our range of political philosophies writing for it and have been for a while.
And not two hours after I wrote this, Arlan Andrews wrote a post excoriating the editor for an anti-Trump editorial in the current issue. Never mind….
What is it about people that they have to polarize things that are supposed to be for customers?