[HPFGU-OTChatter] A New Kind of Authorship?

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This sort of interaction is something that authors like Neil Gaiman, Pamela Dean and Holly Black and our own peg Kerr, among others, have been enjoying for a year or more - Gaiman for about three, since his American Gods blog.

They answer questions, talk about things they're writing, preview other projects, etc. It's an amazing level of approachability and would, imho, make a good masters project in a year or two for someone who wants to combine literature with internet communities.

Heidi
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 1:40am, Brian wrote:
>The JKR website has me thinking that we have on our hands a new kind
>of authorship.
>
>Granted, there's nothing new about author-fan interaction, since fan
>mail has been around as long as mail itself, but surely we're in the
>midst of a new phenomenon.
>
>Jo's website is proof that she is aware of lists such as HPFGU and
>that she wishes to give her own views on certain subjects.  In fact,
>I'm not convinced that she isn't an HPFGU member (though I won't
>mention my JKR!poster suspects). 
>
>I'm a grad. student in English lit.  We spend hours (some of the
>needlessly) discussing things like authorial intent, interaction
>between author and history, etc.  I'm reasonably confident one could
>write a doctoral dissertation on the relationship between JKR and her
>fans, thanks to the Internet.
>
>Case in point:  I wonder if Jo originally intended her books to be
>rife with red herrings?  She used the term "red herrings" in one of
>her interviews, and that got me thinking. 
>
>Just a thought.
>
>Brian
>
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