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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Email your inquiries to Barry or the Mysterious Regina concerning the site, the writing life, movies, book availability, writing, or whatever. We will endeavor here to answer the messages most earnest, amusing, troubled, or witty. To appear here, the crude and insulting messages need to be really well done.
Q: How does one write a customer review? Just Email it to you?
A: No. Send me no reviews. Understand that the innards of the Movie & Book Emporium are direct links to Amazon.com, even though the frame is a page in the Webmansion. In deciding what to put in their "aStore," Amazon didn't include the spot for adding customer reviews. However, to access that function from the Webmansion, on the Book & Movie Emporium page, in the Amazon product search tool in the upper right-hand corner, go to "Books" and enter "Barry B. Longyear," hit the "Go" button, find the book you want to review, and have at it. Once your review is entered, I assume it will eventually appear in the Emporium reviews.
Q: When I go to Amazon and put in a sort for Barry B. Longyear books, the in-print editions are harder to find than the right change at a toll booth. What gives?
A: Beats the hell out of me. My best guess is that the sort is based on the most popular editions, but that really doesn't agree with our sales figures. No matter. Now that we have Barry's Book & Movie Emporium the sort of in-print editions has already been made for you. Hit the icon to be brought to the Emporium then pick "All Books" to see all of my in-print books gathered in one spot. You can still access the other selections (used out-of-print editions) as well as all of Amazon's other products using the search tool on the Emporium page.
Grant
Q: I love your science fiction. Why on earth are you going to write a Civil War novel?
A: That's the story that's knocking at my door.
Q: Okay, you've got me hooked on the Jaggers & Shad mysteries appearing in Analog. So, when is the next? Once a year is not enough! Linda
A: My very words. There are two more tales that are finished, "The Colleton Ghost," and "The Sheriff's Tale." They will not be appearing in the magazine, though. Editor Stanley Schmidt at Analog is having a tough time fitting big pieces into his periodic jigsaw puzzle, and "Colleton Ghost" is a novella. "The Sheriff's Tale" is shorter, but there are problems with filling in readers who are approaching the characters for the first time on what has gone on before. Stan did suggest to me that I put the stories together in an episodic novel, and I have done so. It is titled ABC is for Artificial Beings Crimes and the manuscript is at my agent's. Patience, Linda. Patience.
Meanwhile . . .
The award winning J&S stories, "The Good Kill," "The Hangingstone Rat," "The Purloined Labradoodle," and "Murder in Parliament Street" are available. Email me for prices/shipping on autographed back issues of Analog.
