I am thinking about the buying habits of readers, and trying to subdivide them into several categories, in relation to a single author's works
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I can't think I'm a Character Fan for anyone, in any scenario where I am not also at least a Setting Fan. In the one listing you have for Story Arc Fan, I'm more of a Setting Fan there too, I read Potterverse fic. Both Slash, and Methods of Rationality. :D
I tend to be an Author Fan. Or like, an Author Cluster Fan, to create a new grouping. Niven leads to Niven and Pournelle, leads to Niven and whoever, leads to Pournelle and whoever, leads to whoever and whoever else, leads to whoever else and Niven, etc. ;) Or Correia, Ringo, Williamson, Seville.
But I have a strong tendency to read Entire Canon. I read so many books, and so quickly, that finding enough new stuff I like is hard. So I do a lot of re-reading, but when I find a new author I like... Oooh. I'll probably buy everything in the series I'm in at first, and eat those, and then one or two books in other series, and if I like those, then just... everything. "Why yes! I believe I'd like to spend a lot of money at Amazon, today..."
If I have fallen wildly in love with something an author's written, I'll probably try something else by that author, even if it's a different type of story. There's so much out there to try, though, that I tend not to want to start with long series--I want to use my reading time to try new things.
I tend to pick up a new author based on what genre I'm currently interested in, then if I like the author I'll try more of their books, and if I like them still I tend to become an author fan. So for me its Genre (of the moments mood) fan to get the book, then it becomes author fan once I settle down, even if the genre mood changes. Ie, I've not been in a SF mood for a couple of years, but I'll always pick up a new Niven if I see it.
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I tend to be an Author Fan. Or like, an Author Cluster Fan, to create a new grouping. Niven leads to Niven and Pournelle, leads to Niven and whoever, leads to Pournelle and whoever, leads to whoever and whoever else, leads to whoever else and Niven, etc. ;) Or Correia, Ringo, Williamson, Seville.
But I have a strong tendency to read Entire Canon. I read so many books, and so quickly, that finding enough new stuff I like is hard. So I do a lot of re-reading, but when I find a new author I like... Oooh. I'll probably buy everything in the series I'm in at first, and eat those, and then one or two books in other series, and if I like those, then just... everything. "Why yes! I believe I'd like to spend a lot of money at Amazon, today..."
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Concept fatigue is definitely a thing, with me.
If I have fallen wildly in love with something an author's written, I'll probably try something else by that author, even if it's a different type of story. There's so much out there to try, though, that I tend not to want to start with long series--I want to use my reading time to try new things.
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So for me its Genre (of the moments mood) fan to get the book, then it becomes author fan once I settle down, even if the genre mood changes. Ie, I've not been in a SF mood for a couple of years, but I'll always pick up a new Niven if I see it.
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