[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, yeah, that's the whole point of Covenant. I once saw a parody cover of one of the books with the title replaced as "Asshole Leper Rapist". But the point is missed unless you read the entire series to see how he changes, and yet remains true to himself.

And, yes, there's a distinct negative correlation between these sorts of books and marketability. Most of those authors I mentioned are not very successful.

Steven Erikson got a $1,000,000.00 advance for his series, but that's only 100k per book, and I'm not even sure if he's sold enough to earn much in the way of royalties yet.

Scott Bakker is apparently having a hard time even making ends meet from his writing, and Glen Cook has worked as a mechanic all his life.