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FilthyCasual
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Damn, that's gotta be a real kick in the nuts. I wonder if the writer found out about his ranking before or after his cancelation. I feel like before would be worse.
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Andrew Cunningham
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There was another author tweet doing the rounds lately that claimed the 'cancel or continue' call comes down within three days of release, so the ranking news probably came well after. |
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Yune Amagiri
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I fear that editors keep their authors well enough in touch with everything related to production and sells that the cancellation came to the author's ears way before the ranking. For him/she this ranking must have felt like rubbing salt in the wound. Sad for the author and for fans of such romance like me. |
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topgun97
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Damn that sucks. Winning an award that gives one hope but then getting canceled anyway. Rough. But this makes me wonder, is it possible for authors to continue their work anyway even after the publisher axes their story on their own sites or blogs? I know web novels are sort of what I'm talking about, but has an author continued his/her light novel on other sites? Yeah you won't be making money and your novels won't be published but now you have full creative control. You can stretch the story or shorten it for as long as you want.
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Thespacemaster
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The Cancellation must have been announced way before the ranking, say what you want but if the company does not see immediate results you get the can.
Still this must really be a kick in the nuts for them, i hope they still continue writing and find success elsewhere as they really have potential, they blew the candle on them before it even got to shine 
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Andrew Cunningham
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If the source is a web novel, that version often continues even if the print version dies. If it was written as a light novel, there may be rights issues involved, but authors have been known to go back to their old works and finish them. Ayasato (Torture Princess) Keishi has written a final volume for a series that got canceled at three volumes originally, and she's planning to self-publish that next year. If you're getting other paying work, though, not many want to work for free even if there's personal satisfaction in it. |
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lossthief
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Depends on the exact terms they signed with the publisher, but typically any publishing contract will feature some length of time where they hold the exclusive publishing/distribution rights. So the author would more than likely get in trouble if they started publishing their own continuation, even if it was on free sites or their own social media. |
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Sariachan
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I was wondering about that too, especially because some light novels (even popular ones like Re:Zero), have both free web and printed versions... |
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jdnation
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"Light Novel Author's Work Canceled Even After Ranking in Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!"
Not gonna lie... for a while I honestly thought that the above sentence was an actual title of a light novel. 
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Antipathy
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Doesn't Torture Princess have 9 volumes out right now in english published under Yen-On? On topic they probably got the news in October soon after the last 1 came out. Unless the author has a contract for a specific number of novels to publish. Without that series tend to get the ax in the first week or 2 of publication because that is when about 70% to 90% of overall sales for a book happens. Same type of thing happens to movies and video games also. |
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Andrew Cunningham
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Yes, so it is clearly not the series that was canceled after three volumes. (The self-published book is a fourth and final volume of Arist Craisi, her second series.) |
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MFrontier
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Well, that sucks. I wonder if they could pull a Romance Killer and get an anime adaption out of it, still.
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BlueAlf
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To me, it sounds more like a marketing issue?
Really sucks though. Hopefully if the news make enough rounds then the publishing will get revived. |
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MrTerrorist
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Well that sucks. Here's hoping the publisher change their mind after learning the novel won an award and fans want the novel to continue.
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Guile
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I mean, awards are no substitution for sales. If it sold poorly and wasn't profitable then that's the important thing here.
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