I think that weaving some of the pulp and retrospective posts into the first collection would give your newer readers or even readers unfamiliar with your blog what the those next volumes woudl look like. Like teasers maybe. I would also reprint them in their appropriate collections (so I would keep the number low) so readers wouldn't have to by the first to get all of the early ones.
I decided to put this in a separate comment because reasons. I think that every single entity you publish should have some type of theme even if it's loose like 'early osr', 'middle osr', 'late osr', or 'how the osr has changed over the years'.
I don't like delineations based on time at all. I have Philip Athan's book in hard copy that he put out that I think covered the first year or two of his blog. Love the man's work. Took one of his classes. Amazing stuff. Didn't like the book because it was all over the place, it was only limited by what he posted during the first years of his blog. It gave a taste of his style, but not enough meat for the things that interested me. And it was missing a lot of the posts I had already downloaded and knew I wanted to save.
With that said, I am your target audience for the pulp posts. The pulp posts lead me to things that either I hadn't read or hadn't seen what you had caught. So I would track these stories down to either read or read them. Super valuable work on your part for me.
So for argument's sake, say you had to do one book for each year because you felt you had that many posts you wanted to preserve. Guess how many I am likely to buy. Now think if you could put all of your pulp posts into three volumes, Now how many of those am I likely to buy?
Posting my thoughts here because I am not creating an account on substack for a post and a poll, but thought that I could offer some helpful insights regardless.
Upon further reflection, if your were thinking of having these as more of a reference set for a bookshelf based on year. Which book am I going to find your thoughts on Howard's, 'The Fire of Ashurbanipal'?
I vote wholeheartedly for Maliszewski's Concupiscible Tome of Holding
ReplyDeleteI think that weaving some of the pulp and retrospective posts into the first collection would give your newer readers or even readers unfamiliar with your blog what the those next volumes woudl look like. Like teasers maybe. I would also reprint them in their appropriate collections (so I would keep the number low) so readers wouldn't have to by the first to get all of the early ones.
ReplyDeleteHow much would a 250 page book cost?
ReplyDeleteI decided to put this in a separate comment because reasons. I think that every single entity you publish should have some type of theme even if it's loose like 'early osr', 'middle osr', 'late osr', or 'how the osr has changed over the years'.
ReplyDeleteI don't like delineations based on time at all. I have Philip Athan's book in hard copy that he put out that I think covered the first year or two of his blog. Love the man's work. Took one of his classes. Amazing stuff. Didn't like the book because it was all over the place, it was only limited by what he posted during the first years of his blog. It gave a taste of his style, but not enough meat for the things that interested me. And it was missing a lot of the posts I had already downloaded and knew I wanted to save.
With that said, I am your target audience for the pulp posts. The pulp posts lead me to things that either I hadn't read or hadn't seen what you had caught. So I would track these stories down to either read or read them. Super valuable work on your part for me.
So for argument's sake, say you had to do one book for each year because you felt you had that many posts you wanted to preserve. Guess how many I am likely to buy. Now think if you could put all of your pulp posts into three volumes, Now how many of those am I likely to buy?
Posting my thoughts here because I am not creating an account on substack for a post and a poll, but thought that I could offer some helpful insights regardless.
Upon further reflection, if your were thinking of having these as more of a reference set for a bookshelf based on year. Which book am I going to find your thoughts on Howard's, 'The Fire of Ashurbanipal'?