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If I were to publish a book, is there any chance for it to become very popular? let's assume is a good book, would it go unnoticed for being an author's first book or does it entirely depend on the book?


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For some writers, ONLY their first book was popular. (Some only write one book. Success can be as crippling as failure.)
Here's a list:
www.goodreads.com/list/show/5477.Authors_With_Only_One_Whole_Novel
Although that list isn't counting plays and short stories, which is certainly unfair, I find it telling how many famous writers only wrote one novel.


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J.K. Rowling's debut novel was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It was pretty successful.


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of course debuts can do well if they're good. Some of it will also depend on marketing and genre, but there's nothing stopping a first novel from being a smash.


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