Life's Little Annoyances
Dec. 20th, 2008 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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."
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)Twenty-first century shopping experience: I got an Instant Message on my phone from
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 09:47 pm (UTC)Re: In defense...
Date: 2008-12-25 10:04 pm (UTC)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.