Today, a very unusual On My Shelves...

... reviewing the bizarre, repellent, awesome brilliance that is Weapon Brown, by Jason Yungbluth.

Thank you, Mr. Cold Miser...

... for dumping like 18" of snow over my driveway again, when my snowblower's died. Missed a day of work for that (took me until an hour or so ago to dig out, and I'm in no shape to go anywhere now.)

Musings on sales and popularity of genre...

 According to most conventional wisdom,fantasy is drastically more popular than SF of all types; yet Spheres of Influence just broke 20 reviews on Amazon compared to Phoenix Rising, which has only 12 despite being out a year longer, and what little I know of Spheres' sales indicates it's outselling Phoenix too.

While obviously an author's quality will vary off and on, I don't think Phoenix is SIGNIFICANTLY worse than either GCA or Spheres, so I was kinda expecting Phoenix to do better than my SF ventures, but that appears not to be the case.