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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L S Chabot)
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Subject: packaging
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 16:37:53 EST
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> DON'T BLAME THE AUTHOR FOR THE PACKAGING OF HIS BOOK!!!

Well, yes, few authors can even complain (and get results) about a proposed 
cover--this is true not just for science fiction authors.  (or fiction authors)

However, some biggies appear to be able to influence things some.  I've heard 
Harlan Ellison at public lectures flame about getting them to leave off those 
ads and forms you often get at the end of a book.  He claims to have been 
successful.  Let's see...Patricia Wrede's latest (_The_Harp_of_...) doesn't
have any ads, but both Steven Brust's _To_Reign_In_Hell_ and Pamela Dean's 
_The_Secret_Country_ do, and all of these came out from Ace this spring.  So,
SZKB, can you comment on these ads?  I can imagine that Ace wouldn't give
Pamela Dean much say so, since this was her first book, but you've got a 
couple.  Does anybody other than Ellison gripe about the ads at the end?

L S Chabot
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