Neat things authors do

[Therin of Andor]

It might take a bit of searching to find it, but there was a thread a while back that had a list of all of the authors who did annotations for their books.

Haven't found the list yet, but I did find this amusing quest by Steve Mollmann to use draft documents and resurrect a lost set of annotations after a domain name lapsed:

<i>Myriad Universes: The Tears of Eridanus</i> Draft History

Back in 2010, Michael Schuster and I co-wrote a short Star Trek novel, published as a three-in-one with two others by David R. George III a...

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Have you ever been inspired to seek out a quoted work and read it after seeing it in a book?

Definitely.

I was on a beachside vacation and took several Trek books with me. I think it rained a lot and I so read everything I had on hand. In a local second hand bookshop, I found Vonda McIntyre's "Dreamsnake" and "Fireflood and Other Stories" hitting on a shelf -- and loved them!

I am sure something I had read had a McIntyre quote in it that had intrigued me. Prior to that, I knew her work only from Trek novels.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It might take a bit of searching to find it, but there was a thread a while back that had a list of all of the authors who did annotations for their books.

This might be the old thread!

Author's Notes as Promo Material?

I was rereading some S.C.E. books yesterday, and I noticed a couple of references to other Trek stories. Nothing uncommon about that, of course. They're nice little continuity Easter eggs for TrekLit fans. But why not use those references for more than that? Some authors offer extensive notes...

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[JD]

Not that one, the first post had a long of a authors with links to all of their book annotations.

 

[Christopher]

Not that one, the first post had a long of a authors with links to all of their book annotations.

I checked the pinned "Index of reference threads" post, but it isn't there.

 

[JD]

My mistake, I guess I must be remembering wrong.

 

[DonIago]

Have you ever been inspired to seek out a quoted work and read it after seeing it in a book?

I read Shardik after Shardik made an appearance in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series.

Fun fact: It's by the same author who wrote Watership Down, which I've never read.