----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> To: "Sean" <spenn at shaw.ca>; "Dragaera Mailing List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 2:22 AM Subject: Re: Sethra Lavode vs. Enchantress of Dzur Mountain > At 12:38 AM 8/14/2002 -0700, Sean wrote: > > >Our marketing guys always assume the consumer is dumb too. (with apologies > >to any marketing folks on the list). > > The marketing guys didn't suggest the change. Patrick suggested the > change. He's an editor, and someone in whose judgment I have a *lot* of faith. > snip > > There are some things I think are vital, and that I will insist on. Other > things are not important, and in those, I don't see any reason not to > accept the advice of those I trust. > > Anyone who thinks Patrick Neilsen Hayden is lacking in integrety needs to > get to know the individual. He has done more to promote and encourage > *good* science fiction than just about anyone else I can think of. Not being as down with the Brust real-world mythos as I obviously should have been, I'm going to have to back-pedal madly here, duck a nod towards Patrick, and say something smarmy. Nothing intelligable comes out because there's a size 11 in the way... Oh well.