Lol - I don't think Sovin and SR ever talked but we were purposefully working towards making that happen, Curethan. That reminds me... I should finish my spoof of "Frodo Lives!" and intro post for "Who are the Dunyain?" thread.
For my part, I hit up some titles by Abercrombie, Martin, Lawrence, Tolkien, Erikson, Guy Kay, Rothfuss, Salavator, among others.
And once again for documentation, I'm distributing closest to Bakker-Mecca (other than London itself) and THERE WEREN'T EVEN COPIES OF BAKKER IN THE STORE! What the fuck, readers/publishers?!