Thanks for the update! That would've been nice to know.
There was another round of conversation about this over at SBTB. The general opinion was that it was supposed to be funny and was good marketing.
I'm okay with the internal explanation, I guess. But something about self-quoting still bothers me, even if it supposed to be a joke for fans. I asked myself if it was b/c I don't really care for KM/SK, but I don't think that is it. I would get the same sort of squidgy feeling if there was a Krentz quote on a Quick book (like, but don't read any longer) or Nora Roberts quote on a J.D. Robb book (still read and love). Then I considered the same behavior in more literary authors: I can't imagine it happening there, even as a joke, or among non-fiction writers, or in other areas of artistic endeavour. The only marketing I've ever done is professional -- the law is very particular (excessively so in some ways, I think) about what you can and cannot advertise or hawk or endorse; maybe I'm just carrying that standard into arenas in which it does not belong.
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Re: More on the Kenyon Quote
Date: 2006-03-20 05:27 pm (UTC)There was another round of conversation about this over at SBTB. The general opinion was that it was supposed to be funny and was good marketing.
I'm okay with the internal explanation, I guess. But something about self-quoting still bothers me, even if it supposed to be a joke for fans. I asked myself if it was b/c I don't really care for KM/SK, but I don't think that is it. I would get the same sort of squidgy feeling if there was a Krentz quote on a Quick book (like, but don't read any longer) or Nora Roberts quote on a J.D. Robb book (still read and love). Then I considered the same behavior in more literary authors: I can't imagine it happening there, even as a joke, or among non-fiction writers, or in other areas of artistic endeavour. The only marketing I've ever done is professional -- the law is very particular (excessively so in some ways, I think) about what you can and cannot advertise or hawk or endorse; maybe I'm just carrying that standard into arenas in which it does not belong.