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Originally Posted by issybird
I don't have a horse in this race, but it seems to me that any writer who's heavily into conventions and other activities which feed and profit from the fandom has to accept everything that goes with it in terms of fan expectations. My deeper respect has to go to the writer who doesn't try to feed and manipulate the fans, but just gets on with it. Or not - but then they haven't created the situation.
For that matter, why don't the fans boycott? Stop showing up at the conventions until he follows through?
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That is what I always think about when I hear Scalzi trot out that line. It works both ways.