On Jul 11, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Noah Melnick wrote: > I'm pretty sure that there is zero legal issue with guessing the outcome of > the next book since only an idiot would think I had some claim to something > because of such a guess, but to avoid another long and pointless chain of > e-mails where people that aren't legal experts pontificate about the law, I > shall cease speculating. But, it actually does raise another question for > me, what do most people on this list do for a living? I for one am a > structured finance and derivatives lawyer. Ray, do you have demographics data > on your fans, e.g. average age, occupations, etc.?
Nope. I've gotten fan mail from people as old as 90 and as young as 9. They work everywhere, and are of every type of job you could imagine. It confounds my publisher at times re: marketing, but it's all good, because whoever they are, they keep buying stuff and I keep writing it. I just wish I had a higher percentage of supermodels who had a thing for older writers; other than that, it's a really nice bunch. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
