/lit/ - Literature

>>22008383
That's really stubborn. I wanted to write something set in ancient times write when we had more of a historic record, basically after the Bronze Age recorded history becomes a lot easier to get into. But that's really frustrating because I can look at Achaemenid Persian fiction, the Empire right before the Greeks and Romans, and there is basically NOTHING new. That is a crying shame, especially considering it was an ancient empire that put women in military general positions which I guess is something they don't really care about. I'm not gonna do that as my first release but like hell of if I'm gonna let a pencil neck agent tell me we shouldn't even try. That wasn't even gonna be the focus of the novel but even talking about it in an interview or a blurb can turn heads.
I agree with you, it's really risk averse behavior but I've heard many agents and publishers say it's impossible to even tell when something will be a best seller. They apparently just go with the flow or something?