Well...or the hard work of creating their own characters and worlds. Don't forget the fan in fanfic.
And many of those book fairs are industry things, like Frankfurt, where they are not there to make fans of their work. Not that realist authors have fandoms the way we do--sometimes I think the tenacity of fandom is the only thing keeping books going.
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Date: 2011-07-26 09:57 pm (UTC)And many of those book fairs are industry things, like Frankfurt, where they are not there to make fans of their work. Not that realist authors have fandoms the way we do--sometimes I think the tenacity of fandom is the only thing keeping books going.