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Sorry to clutter up this thread!, but.... forum rules permit, sometimes encourage, and sometimes force postings of individual threads rather than posting to sub-genre threads. There are certainly no rules forcing posting to genre-specific threads.
I appreciate both strategies, but it seems that it's only recently that the explosion of genre-threads has become common here, and I'm not certain that it's always a good thing. The genre-specific threads make it 'easier' for me to skim the forum for my 'usual suspects', at the risk of missing stuff that I'd probably enjoy.
ATDrake's title lines are almost always specific enough to allow those not interested to skip the thread (and far more specific than genre-threads), while it isn't always possible to skip a large discussion taking place in the middle of a genre-specific thread. (No way to separate your personal 'wheat from the chaff' inside a genre thread.) And the observation that it makes it easy to link a repeat freebie to older discussion is certainly true.
I'm FAR more likely to benefit from ATDrake's posts when they're individual threads, because I've grown to have a great respect for the breadth of ATDrake's knowledge about books and awareness of the market as well as being aware of the number of posts that are cross-genre rather than genre-specific-- while I'd be more likely to miss those posts if they were in genre-threads.
So, my vote: Post away, ATDrake, any way you see fit. (And thanks!)
KentE
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