midlist
[mid-list]
- the part of a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books consisting of titles that are expected to have average sales or success, as compared to the frontlist.
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He calls these authors who have been dropped by the big publishers midway into their careers the “midlist” writers.
Calculatedly come-lately, mainstream publishing houses soon signed their own midlist gay authors.