There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
Fred SaberhagenThe comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.
Fred SaberhagenI am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.
Fred SaberhagenOnly towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
Fred Saberhagen