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So I've been conducting an e-mail discussion with Josh Palmatier (Benjamin Tate)about verisimilitude in characters and world-building. That will be up here pretty soon--but until then, how about coming at it from another angle?

Here's a question, based on my reading somewhere on my flist that someone or other (how's that for pegging sources?) insists that readers today google authors before they buy a book. (I'm not sure that's true, but that might be because everybody does it but me.) If I hear about a book, I google the book, not the author, but maybe that's my age ( Read more... )