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... there are only THREE reviews so far (one of them my own) for Mountain Magic. I find this peculiar as there are no less than *15* reviews for Digital Knight -- a first book by a completely unknown author -- and about 10 of those had been posted in the first couple of months of release. This despite the fact that Mountain Magic is selling MUCH better (AFAICT) than DK did, and DK didn't sell badly at all, and that Mountain Magic has much bigger names on the cover.

Wierd.

Current Mood: Puzzled

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From:

meril.livejournal.com

I bought Mountain Magic about 3 weeks ago. I haven't got around to reading it yet, as I'm still trying to pound through this stack of library books.

I was going to review it on my blog....wait, you're talking about Amazon reviews, not generic bookblogger blather, right?

From:

seawasp

... and no, in a way. Any reviews are good, but on Amazon not only are they (supposedly) a minor publicity thing, they're also the only place things like that get gathered together. FInding online reviews of books that are posted in personal locations is HARD. I managed it for DK mainly by watching web listings like a hawk, but I'm sure I missed some anyway.

So yeah, I love seeing ANY review of my stuff, but I encourage anyone who DOES do a review to ALSO put it up on Amazon. (only if it's a POSITIVE review, naturally... ;) )

From:

meril.livejournal.com

The only thing I have reviewed at Amazon ever was a Pikachu toy, and I did that anonymously. I did not even review the anthology my friends had a story in. I should probably fix that.

I just remembered I have robots.txt blocking all engine-robots from indexing my blog, because I had a horrible case of blog spam. Now I see your point.

It is probably good that I did not review your other book. Which I honestly did not know existed until I friended you. I need to *find* your other book.

From:

seawasp

... if you don't mind electronic copies, you can get Digital Knight from Baen's Webscriptions. Amazon still claims that they, or their agents, can get physical copies, too.