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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Number of the Beast
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 19:27:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 19:27:51 1985
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> 	Seeing SKZB on the net, I went out and purchased "To Reign in Hell",
> 	and began reading it this evening.  One question: Just how much did
> 	you pay Zelazny for the prologue? Only kidding, only kidding...
> 
> 
> 					maxson%vaxwrk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA

Not a thing.  I may as well tell you what happened though, since you
sort of asked and I feel like it.  My editor (Terri Windling--one of
the finest, maybe THE finest fantasy editors working today) is well
aware that, to me, the terms "God" and "Zelazny" are synonamous.  She
sent him copies of JHEREG and YENDI to see if he would do a cover quote.
He did a very nice one, most of which appears on YENDI.  As I was about
to write and thank him, the publishers of To Reign In Hell (the hardcover--
SteelDragon Press) suggested I ask him if we could use that quote for
TRIH--as in, "Roger Zelazny says this about the authors other works."  I
felt a little nervous about asking him to do this without allowing him
to see the book he would sort of endorsing, so I sent him a copy, along
with the suggestion that he just throw it away if he wanted.  The forward
came back in the mail in less than a week--two days before we needed to
send the book to the printer.  Needless to say, it was months before my
feet hit the floor.  I'm not sure they have yet.