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Neal Asher über den Namen Tor in seinem Buch Cowl

 
From: Rick Kleffel
Sent: 20 November 2003 23:28
To: Neal Asher
Subject: Cowl Q

Neal,
Just wondering whether you were frontloading your novel Cowl to ensure it got the nod from Tor US/UK 
by putting the publisher's name on one of your beasties. I really wouldn't want to hazard a guess....

Thanks,
Rick Kleffel

From: Neal Asher
Subject: RE: Cowl Q
Date: November 21, 2003 2:18:12 AM PST
To: Rick Kleffel

Funnily enough I wrote Cowl as a novella years before I was taken on by Macmillan and the 'tors' and 'torbeast' were so named in that. During that time I obviously knew the names of British publishers because I was submitting to them. The publisher Tor in America I might have recognised if someone said the name to me, but nothing beyond that. I guess my knowledge of publishers names then, was only a little beyond that of a general reader. In reality readers don't actually look for the names of publishers; they look for the names of authors, read blurbs, look at cover pictures (this is perhaps something those wrapped up in the publishing world probably don't quite get). Of course, being the launch SF lead writer of Tor Macmillan and also being published by Tor in America, no one is going to believe me now. However, I do have proof of this in my short story 'The Torbeast's Prison' which was published in Kimota 13 in Autumn 2000 just as I'd been taken on by Pan Macmillan, before the creation of Tor Macmillan, and before The Skinner and Gridlinked were taken by Tor in America. Anyway, I could always say that Cowl is actually a very clever allegory - that'll get the pseuds wetting their pants.

best
Neal Asher
 

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