Let's Talk Readership

A few days ago, Richard S. Wheeler wrote on his blog: "In any case, publishers are to this day prisoners of their readerships. If the remaining western lines publish formulaic stories, little different from tens of thousands already published, it is because that's all their readers (and distributors) will buy...."

I've been pondering this, and I really believe it's more that readership is prisoner of the faulty publishers. Readers are changing and now find more pleasure with mysteries (contemporary and historical) set in the west, books billed as Novels of the West (usually contemporary), Historical Fiction (set in the West). Authors such as Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Coel, Ivan Doig, Alexie Sherman and more, have good followings by readers who want the West but not the term "Western". These authors also aren't usually published by the houses that put out traditional westerns. read more at Mental Geysers




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