Hi, what I meant was, Does the cover art/title/back cover matter for the third book of a trilogy? Will random people actually buy the book? I'm asking because I've been buying all your work since To Reign In Hell and tend not to read SF books unless the NYT or Tom Disch or someone of the stature of Gene Wolfe (in your case, Zelazny) says something is great. And though I enjoyed e.g. _TLoCB_ I wouldn't want readers unfamiliar with Dragaera to pick it up at random - the bookstores should instead be flooded with The Book of Jhereg and _TPG_ and _Agyar_ and _TRIH_. - Philip On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Steven Brust wrote: > > > > Question for SKZB or the powers-at-Tor - any idea what the ratio of > > hmm-the-Zelazny-or-T.Williams-blurb-is-intriguing purchasers to us > > true-blue-buying-in-hardcover-months-early-from-Amazoners is? > > As I understand it, blurbs are less designed to appear to readers than to > the buyers for various chains and major outlets. Er, if that doesn't answer > your question, you'll have to rephrases it. > > > >