[Dragaera] Author-driving & story excitement

[A.S. Zanoni]

Message: 22
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>


*** 4]  If you could buy a short story collection of Steve's, would you?

Yes (though I would want to hear some reasons to first - I don't recall
seeing a lot of excitement here for any of his stories, for example).

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I have found that most people, longtime fans included, are not 
acquainted with Steve's short stories.



I read the Scribblies as a set via the Liavek anthologies.  Hence my 
addiction.

I read anthologies and collections frequently.  I read voraciously; 
therefore I perceive the only difference between a short story and a 
novel is length.  (I know that is not accurate, but that's how my 
reader-mind works.)  Some authors prefer one  form over the other, and 
some do not.

However, I bet most of you picked up Steve's books a long time ago.  I 
never located them until recently.  I had to make up for lost time.

So the point of this is - when I find an author that I like, I seek his 
or her work.  When I don't find it, I tend to wait until I do.  [At 
least until computerized inter-library loan began to make up for where 
local bookstores vanished.]  This is what happens when you subsist 
mostly on library books.

I am one of those author-driven people.  I like to drive people over to 
the authors that I like to read.

Alan Dean Foster did an anthology once.  It's called _Betcha Can't Read 
Just One_.  That describes how I feel about the people I like to read.

I have a strong feeling that the odds are stacked - people who already 
like reading an author's books will very likely enjoy short stories as well.

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A.S. Zanoni
Personal Assistant to Steven Brust

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