That's the problem. They're not the "Author," they're just the Storyteller.

[That's semantics, maybe, but it's what the Storyteller is going around asking to be called and names mean something. Names have power, and maybe there's a reason a god is marking themselves down to a mere storyteller.]

. . . They asked me something interesting, when I wanted to know if the new islands would always disappear: did anything you make last?