![]() ![]() The literary novel grows increasingly harder to sell unless it is boosted by a major prize or the imprimatur of Gok Wan, and publishers are reluctant to take on even established authors if their previous sales figures have been disappointing. I always wondered if this was because they were slightly embarrassed about it.īut in the 10 years since I wrote my first novel, the landscape has shifted, and such genre snobbery has been significantly eroded by the marketplace. There was no prestige, it seemed, in writing genre stuff even when such respected "literary" authors as Julian Barnes and John Banville turned their hand to crime novels they did so under a pseudonym (Dan Kavanagh and Benjamin Black respectively). ![]() ![]() Crime and thrillers were dismissed as genre fiction, which was – in those days, at least – scorned by the literary establishment. This artificial division persisted in the literary world I came to work in after university. ![]()
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