[mrganondorf]

One must begin at the beginning. TSA must be followed sequentially or you lose everything that makes it great. Everything has been meticulously crafted, and if you start in the middle you might as well not have started at all... imo.

I have to agree.  If you read just a few chapters in TSA, there are sooo many spoilers that the entire first trilogy will be severely weakened. 

I also do agree that book 1 is hard to get into because it starts you off with so many different things happening at once, and a casual reader might not be interested/invested enough yet to care and might just give up.  All we can do about that is promise them its like Game of Thrones and to be patient.

I can't make up my mind, but you and Wilshire seem so convinced about it, I'll defer.  GoT + TDTCB

[mrganondorf]

GREAT, now I can stare at the address and think:  "I would like to request an ARC because...because...because PLEASE GIVE ME ONE!!!"

[Wilshire]

lol I would support this except it defaces a  Bakker book :/.

[Madness]

What "Feminist Literature," Pendulus?

[mrganondorf]

> hit the local library
> bring a copy of The Warrior-Prophet
> remove the epilogue's pages and slip them into feminist literature
> semantic apocalypse achieved

what poor soul is now missing an epilogue?!?

[Cüréthañ]

I've been spending a little time trolling general threads and rec requests on r/fantasy and r/books and extolling Bakker or upvoting where appropriate.

[mrganondorf]

I've been spending a little time trolling general threads and rec requests on r/fantasy and r/books and extolling Bakker or upvoting where appropriate.

i wonder how many of us are talking to each other unbeknownst under different aliases on other forums

[Wilshire]

lol, creating a grand illusion of a growing crowd will draw others like there was an actual crowd . After all, nothing draws a crowd quite so well as a crowd.

[Francis Buck]

i wonder how many of us are talking to each other unbeknownst under different aliases on other forums

For some reason this cracked me up.

[mrganondorf]

i wonder how many of us are talking to each other unbeknownst under different aliases on other forums

For some reason this cracked me up.

i like that word, unbeknownst

[Quinthane]

to promote R. Scott do as i did...

make yourself a 'What Would Kellhus Do" key-chain. When your friends ask what WWKD means, play it off like it's something they'd never understand. They'll eventually crack under the weight of ignorance and read the books in order to save face. R. Scott will take it from there.

It's one way to go. You may want to drop into the probability trance to be sure it's the shortest path. Be carefull though. Makes sure you know what you're doing. Last Friday morning at Starbucks I used it to discover the shortest path to a free venti mocha. When I came out of it, the store was closed, it was 2:45 a.m. and my wallet was gone.

[Wilshire]

You need to work on that processing speed for you trance.

WWKD is a legit idea. I've tried this tactic once or twice, in different ways, and haven't had much success. Might get me a key chain though.

[mrganondorf]

love it!  i also want shirts with verses from the Tusk on them.  then i'd like to go to the superbowl and hold up Book Of Scholars 3:16 sign

also i would like to go to the superbowl

QUINTHANE!  i may be misrecollecting this, but do you guitar?  can you write the first Earwan hit song for Terran airwaves? 

mtv will be like we love your music but we dont understand it and youll be like yeah i do a lot of drugs and they will be like who is your inspiration and you will be like fuck off and that will further everyones curiosity and an investigative journalist for rolling stone will publish a piece asking if you are secretly of a canadian writer barker and youll respond by saying get the hell off my lawn where you stand in four thousand dollar bathrobe that hasnt been washed since your inevitable spiral into alcoholism and prostitutes named star

[Madness]

I mentioned in Quorum the other week that I was to make a topic wondering how to market a (supposedly) soon to be released book better than, say, not marketing it at all. Sparked by my dreams last night, and now having reread these threads in their entirety, I thought to resurrect this thread rather than create an entirely new one.

Gedankenexperiment:

You have a book to market. It's the sixth in an on-going SFF series, recalling the recent sprawling ambitions of Malazan Book of the Dead and A Song of Ice and Fire. Money is no obstacle. Every advantage in modern media reach is at your disposal. The author has agreed to attend events, speak, read, and sign books.

What do you do?

[Somnambulist]

Cross-cultural celebrity endorsements (I'm only half-joking).