ellenkushner: (Simon van Alphen by Nicolaes Maes)
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People asking "Where can I buy your books?"

What on earth do they mean by that?

Where do we usually buy books, folks?

This is particularly annoying in the age of internet, where, even when they're self-published, the answer is always "Amazon."

Re: In defense...

Date: 2008-12-21 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drcpunk.livejournal.com
Having recently picked up copies of a few of your books for holiday gifts, I can attest that they are sold in Normal Bookstores, like Borders, in the Normal Section of Science Fiction.

Twenty-first century shopping experience: I got an Instant Message on my phone from [livejournal.com profile] jlighton, using his phone, from a bus, to ask, "Okay, so, with the game store Neutral Ground closing, is there anything you want as a non-denominational holiday present that you didn't already pick up from them?"

I IMed back, "Yep, Grand Tome of Adversaries for Witch Hunter, and if that's sold out, I can give you alternatives. How about you? I'm in the Borders near Penn Station."

He IMed me with a link to the web page where most of his fiction is cataloged. Quick check: Nope, doesn't have Thomas the Rhymer, doesn't have any McKillip. Right. One Rhymer, one Riddlemaster. All good. (He's read TPotS and Swordspoint.)

Re: In defense...

Date: 2008-12-25 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drcpunk.livejournal.com
Thanks. I also got Swordspoint and Privilege of the the Sword for the daughter of my ex-assistant (who is now running the department, which is good, except that said department now consists of, well, just her) who is now sixteen. I gave a quick run down of the possible flags to her mother.

I already knew that mother and daughter were okay with fantasy and sf about weird religious stuff, including made up religions ("Oh, that's fine -- she finds it interesting") and violence ("It's okay -- she just read the first Narnia book, and there's plenty of violence in that.") I figured TPotS wasn't a problem, as it's a coming of age story, and that seems to allow for an awful lot to slip in, but I wasn't sure about the other, so said up front that it was a gay romance.

"Oh, that's fine -- she knows about all that stuff," said her mother.

"Oh, good," I said. "I have no idea what kids today know."

"I start to explain about something and she says, 'Oh, Mommy, I already know that."

I sort of remember being 16. But, it's already blurring in my head with being 26 and 36.

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