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In the wake of the USA presidential election, Deep Genre is thinking about politics, class, and science fiction and fantasy.
An introductory post is up now (see link above), and we hope to have more posts going up for the next many days.
Meanwhile, reader JA in Australia has given me permission to excerpt this from an email she sent me:
While in my local book store a youngish man was browsing the sci fi section and I talked him into getting the 1st two volumes of the Gate books and told him the 3rd was on its way, then I introduced him to the Crown series. He left the shop loaded up with your books and said to me as he left "God, I hope you're not in here next time I call or I will have to get a second job to pay for the books." Laughter echoed around the bookshop.
Do I have the best readers, or what? There is no way I could convince people to buy my books like that, although I can "sell" other authors' novels to strangers, no problem.
An introductory post is up now (see link above), and we hope to have more posts going up for the next many days.
Meanwhile, reader JA in Australia has given me permission to excerpt this from an email she sent me:
While in my local book store a youngish man was browsing the sci fi section and I talked him into getting the 1st two volumes of the Gate books and told him the 3rd was on its way, then I introduced him to the Crown series. He left the shop loaded up with your books and said to me as he left "God, I hope you're not in here next time I call or I will have to get a second job to pay for the books." Laughter echoed around the bookshop.
Do I have the best readers, or what? There is no way I could convince people to buy my books like that, although I can "sell" other authors' novels to strangers, no problem.