On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:23:09PM -0700, Steven Brust wrote: > > > 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? > > Oh. Well, it seems odd to me, but I'm told that, yes, they do. I started with _Phoenix_, although that's not a tight-trilogy situation. Except insofar as it is a sequel to _Teckla_, but the book cover certainly gave me no warning. I think I got properly hooked when I realized that this Brust guy had also written that _To Reign in Hell_ book I'd gotten a kick out of back when I wasn't paying attention to the authors of books. -xx- Damien X-)