I was unaware of this title change until reading the various postings about it...personnally, I prefer the original title, but I know I'll still buy the book no matter what the title on the cover... Amazon will love the title change though, they are still trying to get people to special order the so-called out-of-print book "Nor Even Death Destroy" by Glen Cook, the name being the working title / originally planned title for his book "Tower of Fear". Something about Tor Books, they love to change titles prior to publication... Seems that "Paths of the Dead" was originally listed as part of the title for "Taltos" or was that just the U.K. edition? Steve P.S. for SKZB - have you found any of those Zelazny short stories yet? If not, I can send you a print-out of them, care of your hotel or whatever... >From: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> >To: Sean <spenn at shaw.ca>, Dragaera Mailing List <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Re: Sethra Lavode vs. Enchantress of Dzur Mountain >Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:22:16 -0700 > >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. > >I agree--those who have been reading all of my books for twenty years will >not have a problem. New readers might. And sales staff will, and that >will have an effect on how hard they push it. Not a deliberate effect, >but... "We also have the Enchantress of GH, DH, DZ...uh...a new Robert >Jorden book." > >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. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com