Re: Variations on a theme

Andrew Wheeler wrote:
> John <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>"James Nicoll" <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>news:frjn1j$b2t$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>Variations on a theme
>>>
>>>Question for any readers, fans, reviewers or writers who might be
reading
>>>this
>>>but not editors, agents, booksellers or publishers , unless they also
fall
>>>into one or more of the first three groups:
>>>
>>>What kinds of books that you would snap up on sight aren't being
written
>>>and/or published anymore?
>>>
>>>For the purposes of this discussion, we'll assume "more books by a 
>>>particular
>>>dead author" falls outside my question. I'm curious about currently
>>>unfilled market niches.
>>
>>They don't seem to be publi****ng short story collections much these
days.
> 
> 
> Who's "they?" Admittedly, the major New York houses (Ace, Tor, DAW, Eos,
> Roc, etc. ) don't do more than one or two a year, but the small-presses
> have more than picked up the slack.
> 
> The February issue of _Locus_ has their "Recommended Reading" lists, and
> that includes 20 single-author collections published last year -- and
> that's just the ones they *reccomend*!
> 
> Is there anyone out there regularly publi****ng short fiction who
> *hasn't* had a collection yet?
> 


Well, I haven't, but at some point I will strong-arm Roger 
MacBride Allen into doing one.

Brenda



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