This short story collection contains six the three stories from The Translated Man and Other Stories ("The Hangman's Daughter," "Cresy and the Sharpsie," and "Elijah Beckett's Job") and the stories "The Locked Eye," "My Heinlein's Crumble to Dust in My Hands," and "We Are Shepherds."
RAAARRGGGH! I AM A MIGHTY NOVELIST AND ALSO DINOSAUR!
Hello. Welcome to the biography of Chris Braak, famous playwright and book-writing-guy. You may have heard the rumors that I am actually a velociraptor in disguise, wearing a suit that I made from the skins of my human victims, but that's obviously absurd! I mean, how, if I were such a thing, could I ever type? I'd need some kind of mechanical apparatus that fit over my saurian talons that I was able to use to manipulate an ordinary keyboard. I'd call it a talonic-mechano-typewriting engine, IF SUCH A THING EXISTED. Which it doesn't.
Anyway, read some of my books, or risk being devoured.
Also, I'm just adding anyone as a friend if we have more than 30 books in common. If there's a better criterion for friendship, I can't think of what it might be.