Yup. If it were a case of choosing to write something I actively didn't enjoy writing but which was more commercial, it would be a different matter -- not least because if you hate writing it, that is likely to show and thus is not in your long-term commercial interests anyway. But here it's a matter of choosing which one of many I would like to write, and one of the things that comes into play is recognising when one series is played out from a commercial point of view.
I'd agree with you that by and large, that would be a variation on rejectomancy. Unusually, with Spindrift I do know one of the elements that made it commercially unsuccessful -- it's written in first person. Apparently a lot of romance readers hate first person and won't read it. I didn't know that at the time I wrote it, and it would never have occurred to me, because some of my favourite books are first person. Most of my output is third person, but only because that's what works for me as a *writer*. (Of course, some of the people who finished Spindrift loved it being first person, probably because it's so hard to find first person romances if you happen to be one of the minority who like them.)
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Date: 2011-12-27 10:46 am (UTC)I'd agree with you that by and large, that would be a variation on rejectomancy. Unusually, with Spindrift I do know one of the elements that made it commercially unsuccessful -- it's written in first person. Apparently a lot of romance readers hate first person and won't read it. I didn't know that at the time I wrote it, and it would never have occurred to me, because some of my favourite books are first person. Most of my output is third person, but only because that's what works for me as a *writer*. (Of course, some of the people who finished Spindrift loved it being first person, probably because it's so hard to find first person romances if you happen to be one of the minority who like them.)