Why am I doing this again?

[mrissa]

[Poll #1757672]

Comments

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

hmm...

If it's a single author collection, it's fine to have either the author or a fellow author write the intro.

If it's an anthology, I really like to get an intro from the editor, to get the "this is what we did and how and why backstory. But then, I'm an historian, so I'm more interested in backstory than in third-party literary analysis, which is what I think I more often see if it is someone else writing the intro.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ah. I tend to distinguish verbally between "collection" and "anthology," so I'm only asking about single author collections here.