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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: packaging
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 11:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 11:47:00 1985
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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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Well, uh, gee...I dunno.  I don't really care.  It would be nice if they
only advertised author's I like, or other writers in my writer's group,
but I'm not about to make a stink about it.  I've never heard anyone
else complain about such things.

They used to have an advertising blurb at the beginning of the book,
too.  I was hoping that eventually everyone in our group would appear
in the advertising for everyone else, but now they've changed to it to a
"Other ACE books by the same author" sort of thing.  That's okay too.

				-- SKZB