Well, as I see it, there are the following possibilities:
1) Readers who liked her early work will finally believe she won't write anything like that again, and stop bothering, thus she gets a drop in sales, and in check-outs, and the snowball effect takes over, and sometime about 2010 or so, drops into obscurity. Or On-demand, which is the same thing.
2) It really makes no significant difference, as the higher sales are indicative of a fan base that is really growing because they like her style and content.
3) It draws more readers, who like chutzpah and they stay with the series.
I suspect #2 the likely. Those literate readers who liked the mood and style of her early work will almost definately jump off the sex-crazed vampire series it has becmoe. But it doesn't matter, because sex sells, baby. America and Europe love sex-filled stories more than stories with no sex. Rational explanations not needed, put those characters in the sack! Insult the reader's intelligence, give no thought to plotting, open can of worms afrter can of worms, tie nothing off. No one cares, it won't hurt sales, and each new character adds more opportunities for a new person to relate. Like life, such stories never end.
Unfortunately, I don't like such stories that never end. I think a core group of characters can be used in sequential stories, but even in life, stories end.
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1) Readers who liked her early work will finally believe she won't write anything like that again, and stop bothering, thus she gets a drop in sales, and in check-outs, and the snowball effect takes over, and sometime about 2010 or so, drops into obscurity. Or On-demand, which is the same thing.
2) It really makes no significant difference, as the higher sales are indicative of a fan base that is really growing because they like her style and content.
3) It draws more readers, who like chutzpah and they stay with the series.
I suspect #2 the likely. Those literate readers who liked the mood and style of her early work will almost definately jump off the sex-crazed vampire series it has becmoe. But it doesn't matter, because sex sells, baby. America and Europe love sex-filled stories more than stories with no sex. Rational explanations not needed, put those characters in the sack! Insult the reader's intelligence, give no thought to plotting, open can of worms afrter can of worms, tie nothing off. No one cares, it won't hurt sales, and each new character adds more opportunities for a new person to relate. Like life, such stories never end.
Unfortunately, I don't like such stories that never end. I think a core group of characters can be used in sequential stories, but even in life, stories end.