What's New in the Publishing Industry?

I never was consciously branding myself. It's that the books i write kind of branded me. And people make assumptions based on the books we write. If you write a spy novel, they assume you must be a whiz with a gun and they want you on a desert island because you'll keep them safe. I think imagination and research, good research, is, ofvosly, very important. But we're not just writing about our lives. If we were, at be very, very boring. Oh, i wanted to ask you were first published in 19 87. So what do you think has changed in the publishingan industry, and what is different for authors starting out now