Harkaway

“A huge brown box arrives in your house and you cut through the tape and it has your book in it, real and soon-to-be-published and impossibly more solid than it has ever been until now. Very soon, it will be at least reasonably commonplace in bookshops, for a little while, and you may even see someone reading it on the bus. People will react to it, and to you, in different ways. They may be delighted, stimulated, or changed by it. They may be bored. You can no longer control that, if you ever could.”