From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article <10hnfhj$kmr$2@reader2.panix.com>,   
    jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:   
      
   > I spent a while trying to determine if any big name SF authors   
   > got their start at Baen after Jim Baen died, and as far as I   
   > can tell, the answer is no.   
   >   
   > I _thought_ Larry Correia might be one but he was self-published   
   > before moving to Baen. Likewise, every other possibility turned   
   > to either have started outside Baen or inside Baen but before   
   > 2006. Almost 20 years is a hell of a run without discovering at   
   > least one new superstar.   
   >   
      
   I did some checking of authors who have shown up recently in the Baen   
   catalog and I am wondering if I am seeing more than one group of writers   
   who founded their own publishing companies to publish their books   
   instead of submitting them to major publishers.   
      
   > Did I miss someone?   
   >   
   > This could be the logical outcome of the Del Monte approach to SFF.   
      
   ?   
      
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