It isn't that unusual to have to say something to really understand it.
On a happier note, I had many errands to run yesterday, so I stopped at a bookstore with the specific goal of picking up Free Fall. But it wasn't there, not in new SF, and not under G in SF with your other books. Finally I bugged an employee. Yep, the computer said they got 4 copies and still had 3. We looked downstairs in new books. I looked on tables of recommended books. We looked again in new SF and under G in SF. No luck. Finally, I wandered off to see if it had been put into the teen section or something; the cute guy helping me kept perusing the SF area, and found them under "D" (well, that's the beginning of MY first name...maybe fate reserved my copy there?) Then he found me and gave me one. And went to properly reshelve the others. Yay!
It isn't that unusual to have to say something to really understand it.
No, but I'd already been through this with the very first rough draft and thought I knew...and now I know something else. Ah well, at least I can say with complete honesty that this book rewards rereading. *grin*
and found them under "D"
Urrrrkkkk.... *dies a little* That's just... terrifying to me, and really sad commentary about bookstore employees who can't tell the difference between a G and a D... But I'm glad you persevered!
Yeah, I'd understand the mis-filing better if you were Laura Donovan Gilman, or Deirdre Anne Gilman, or some such...
But look at it this way, entropy tried to cause problems, but was foiled this time. Your new books are back where your fans can find them. And who knows, maybe having someone be persistent in looking will help when they decide what to reorder. One can hope.
The cute guy helping me, by the way, also grumbled about the competence of his fellow employees. Though he also pointed out that customers sometimes pick up a book and then re-shelve it inappropriately--usually through sheer carelessness. (But, I muse, it's also possible someone who needed to wait for payday to buy the books used my mother's usual gambit for hiding a book when she wanted to enforce chores - that is, to put it away, but not in alphabetical order - in hopes that the books would still be there when they returned with cash.) At least the books weren't stolen, which would not help your sales at all, since the inventory would then keep saying they have the book when they didn't. So I'm pleased to have gotten your books properly re-shelved.
By the way, just after reading Burning Bridges, I wrote a song. I'd love to sing it for you:
Still Living (or Can We Retrieve a Future?) By: Deirdre M. Murphy
Step out in the snow, find blood, death, and pain Wings bound by Current no Null could have sent Our alliance, precarious, may fail in the strain But who would gain from war ‘tween Fatae and Talent?
CHORUS: Living is moving, living is change We can’t raise our dead or Retrieve what is past. Will or nil, our lives grow more dicey and strange But we’re not ready yet, to give up, and, at last, be still…
The seer brought my fortune, I could not evade Even my special talent can no longer hide me I called friends together, alliance was made All we seek is to live, and to live free CHORUS:
So we’ll fight for our honor, we’ll fight for our lives Til we’re all too battered or wizzed out to stand Alone, no Lonejack, Council, or Fatae survives Our enemy’s hidden, we must work paw in hand CHORUS:
We can’t Retrieve fallen friends, or who we once were, We can’t even call back our own dreams But if we live, we can try to build a new future Though we must use blood, and Current, and moonbeams
CHORUS: Living is moving, living is change We can’t raise our dead or Retrieve what is past. Will or nil, our lives grow more dicey and strange But we’re not ready yet, to give up, and, at last, be still… But we’re not ready yet, to give up, so we shall not be still…
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Date: 2008-06-06 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-06 04:20 pm (UTC)(Hey, it could be worse -- you could've figured it out after it was published....)
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Date: 2008-06-06 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-06 06:59 pm (UTC)On a happier note, I had many errands to run yesterday, so I stopped at a bookstore with the specific goal of picking up Free Fall. But it wasn't there, not in new SF, and not under G in SF with your other books. Finally I bugged an employee. Yep, the computer said they got 4 copies and still had 3. We looked downstairs in new books. I looked on tables of recommended books. We looked again in new SF and under G in SF. No luck. Finally, I wandered off to see if it had been put into the teen section or something; the cute guy helping me kept perusing the SF area, and found them under "D" (well, that's the beginning of MY first name...maybe fate reserved my copy there?) Then he found me and gave me one. And went to properly reshelve the others. Yay!
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Date: 2008-06-06 07:15 pm (UTC)It isn't that unusual to have to say something to really understand it.
No, but I'd already been through this with the very first rough draft and thought I knew...and now I know something else. Ah well, at least I can say with complete honesty that this book rewards rereading. *grin*
and found them under "D"
Urrrrkkkk.... *dies a little* That's just... terrifying to me, and really sad commentary about bookstore employees who can't tell the difference between a G and a D... But I'm glad you persevered!
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Date: 2008-06-06 07:43 pm (UTC)But look at it this way, entropy tried to cause problems, but was foiled this time. Your new books are back where your fans can find them. And who knows, maybe having someone be persistent in looking will help when they decide what to reorder. One can hope.
The cute guy helping me, by the way, also grumbled about the competence of his fellow employees. Though he also pointed out that customers sometimes pick up a book and then re-shelve it inappropriately--usually through sheer carelessness. (But, I muse, it's also possible someone who needed to wait for payday to buy the books used my mother's usual gambit for hiding a book when she wanted to enforce chores - that is, to put it away, but not in alphabetical order - in hopes that the books would still be there when they returned with cash.) At least the books weren't stolen, which would not help your sales at all, since the inventory would then keep saying they have the book when they didn't. So I'm pleased to have gotten your books properly re-shelved.
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Date: 2008-06-06 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-06 10:06 pm (UTC)By the way, just after reading Burning Bridges, I wrote a song. I'd love to sing it for you:
Still Living (or Can We Retrieve a Future?)
By: Deirdre M. Murphy
Step out in the snow, find blood, death, and pain
Wings bound by Current no Null could have sent
Our alliance, precarious, may fail in the strain
But who would gain from war ‘tween Fatae and Talent?
CHORUS: Living is moving, living is change
We can’t raise our dead or Retrieve what is past.
Will or nil, our lives grow more dicey and strange
But we’re not ready yet, to give up, and, at last, be still…
The seer brought my fortune, I could not evade
Even my special talent can no longer hide me
I called friends together, alliance was made
All we seek is to live, and to live free
CHORUS:
So we’ll fight for our honor, we’ll fight for our lives
Til we’re all too battered or wizzed out to stand
Alone, no Lonejack, Council, or Fatae survives
Our enemy’s hidden, we must work paw in hand
CHORUS:
We can’t Retrieve fallen friends, or who we once were,
We can’t even call back our own dreams
But if we live, we can try to build a new future
Though we must use blood, and Current, and moonbeams
CHORUS: Living is moving, living is change
We can’t raise our dead or Retrieve what is past.
Will or nil, our lives grow more dicey and strange
But we’re not ready yet, to give up, and, at last, be still…
But we’re not ready yet, to give up, so we shall not be still…
Copyright © (2/21/08) Deirdre M. Murphy. All rights reserved.
Thanks to Laura Ann Gilman for Staying Dead; Curse The Dark; Bring It On; and Burning Bridges.
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Date: 2008-06-06 09:58 pm (UTC)