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Skriven 2006-06-02 16:59:00 av Robert E Starr JR (1751.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: AATN JMS: Straczynski
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jmsatb5@aol.com wrote:
> I appreciate and get the compliment inherent in this idea, but I'll
> have to say that I'd rather not see this go ahead, for a reason that
> will seem unbelievably dumb, but it's the only one I have.
>
> Since the very beginning of B5, I've resisted having a jms website,
> despite many offers by fans and others (many of them on this group) to
> have it done completely free.  (The cafepress/b5 scripts site is of
> course a different kettle of fish in that it relates to the books and
> even then it's B5 not jms.)
>
> Pretty much every writer and artist I know has their own website, their
> own message boards, blogs, podcasts, you name it...which is great, and
> more power to them...but for me it just goes farther down the road of
> the cult of personality than I'm really comfortable with.
>
> Do I maintain a public presence?  Of course, but it's always in terms
> of, and through the prism of, the work.  I'm on the B5 news group, I do
> the Newsarama column, that sort of thing, but it's not *J*M*S* if that
> makes any sense.
>
> I don't have a straczynski website for the same reason that I only do a
> handful of conventions each year, when if I chose to I could easily be
> at a con literally two or three times per month, every month...it
> should be about the work, not about me standing on a stage, or having a
> website, or in this case, having a podcast oriented around me as an
> individual.  It's the same reason I don't employ a publicist, which
> I've been informed many times is a drawback in an industry where you
> *need* to maintain that kind of constant visibility to keep ascending
> the ladder.
>
> This may seem wholly arbitrary, but we all have to draw our lines
> somewhere, and this is where I've drawn mine.
>
> Besides, who the hell could ever manage to spell straczynskicast
> anyhow?
>
> jms

FWIW, you're distinct avoidance of a cult of personality is one of the
things I find refreshing about you. I remember reading some time ago
about you deliberately squashing references to you as "The Great Maker"
and was very surprised.

Your attendance was the reason I went to Wizard World Philly. I was
aware to some degree that you don't appear at many cons, and was very
pleasantly satisfied with your appearance there, too.

I know this probably sounds like fawning fanboy BS, but I'm just trying
to say that I do think you are a person to be admired. Even when you
are being difficult ;)

Bill
                                                                               
                       
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