#3151posting

(It’s more likely than you think)

... really truly started after the Amaris Civil War; a handful of exhausted SLDF veterans writing about their experiences. Aleksandr Kerensky of course wrote one, as did Elizabeth Hazen (Hazen's has sold better over the centuries, since "guerilla combat for decades against fascists in the wilds of the post-nuke PNW" sells better - and gets better movie deals - than "grand strategy and logistics").

Then there was a slow and steady trickle throughout the Succession Wars, particularly during the Second - what with the First tending to leave most "veterans" as piles of radioactive ash - mainly focusing on major operations and meeting famous people.

The industry really started to pick up after the Fourth Succession War, and by the mid 3050s you had thousands of books by veterans of the Clan Invasion - especially Tukayyid vets. At first it was just Spheroids, but then, slowly, some members of the Clans themselves got persuaded to write books.

Moving into the mid 3060s the focus changed to Operations BULLDOG and SERPENT. A few memoirs of the FedCom Civil War were published in the late '60s, but then the industry got hit hard and fell off during the Jihad.

After the Jihad, it exploded in popularity. Lots of "I met Devlin Stone" or "I was on Terra" or "I was at Arc-Royal when the bomb went off." It slowed down as the years of "peace" followed, largely concentrated on the Republic, until the industry basically died on 7 August 3132.

However, with the new era (and the new Star League), Sea Fox analysts predict that the industry will see a resurgence within the next six years at most, tied, of course to their predictions of restoring the HPG network, and having absolutely nothing to do with the acquisition of six major military memoir publishing houses by businesses which certainly aren't owned by Sea Fox via shell companies.