Diary (March 16, 2021)

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Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday March 16, 2021.

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On John Brunner

in person, John Brunner was arrogant and full of his own self-importance. He had to be the centre of attention in any group he was in; the conversation was automatically about him. His approach to fans was "I'm a professional writer, so if you want me to come to speak to your fan group, here's my price list" (the vast majority of pros I've known have broached the question of money as an afterthought and generally were happy to consider their speaking fee to include expenses, as talking to fans was something they did because they had themselves been fans, liked fans, considered such exercises as being part of doing the round of promoting their work, and in any case could wrote it off against tax).

  • Post by RobertDayokt : 5, 2016, 7:00am @ Library Thing

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