Why Authors Walk Away From Good, Big 5 Publishers

I've been an author for more than fifteen years. My first book came out with HarperCollins in February 2000 and I've been going ever since. (I'm British and the book came out in the UK and elsewhere, though I'm a relative newbie in the US.)

Fifteen years might not sound such a long time, but I've already had two literary agents, four publishers, seven editors, and thirteen books-even more if you include things I've worked on as editor or ghost. More to the point, I've witnessed the publishing industry evolve through