Humble humble blah blah. It's refreshing to see that the current wave of fantasy authors (yourself, Sanderson, Rothfuss, Erikson, Martin, etc) make themselves very much available on the internet, whether through blogs or social networking or places like reddit. For someone like me, who reads as much fantasy as I can (admittedly I do not blast through books like most people on here, I'm going at a novel-per-two-weeks clip at this point with the little time I have), I've largely chosen what books to read based on reputation and accessibility from places like this sub on reddit. I've read Sanderson, Abercrombie and Rothfuss (and about 100 pages from now - maybe tonight - I'll be starting on Riyria) stuff mostly simply because of word-of-mouth on here and seeing AMAs and dialogue.

So while I appreciate that being accessible helps sell books and gain word of mouth, I don't appreciate any less being able to interact and discuss writing and reading with great authors. TL:DR - thanks for being available and candid in responses.