After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

05/12/05 THU:
---Some more nominally-used books catalogued:
Baxter, Stephen MANIFOLD: SPACE, Del Rey, 2/01, 1st edn, (Reid Malenfant #2), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj $10
Beagle, Peter S. TAMSIN, Roc, 10/99, 1st, (The Long-Awaited New Novel; a beautiful modern-day ghost story), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj $9
Borchardt, Alice THE WOLF KING, Del Rey, 3/01, 1st edn, (Wolf #3; combines dark European mythology, sweeping military drama, and sensuous romantic adventure in a tale that is epic in scope and imagination), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj 7.00
Carcaterra, Lorenzo GANGSTER, Ballantine. 2/01, 1st edn, (crime; an epic tale of murder, forgiveness, love, violence , and destiny), PR laid in, vg-f in dj 5.00
David, Peter STAR TREK NEW FRONTIER EXCALIBUR: Restoration, Pocket, 11/00, 1st hc, (TV tie-in; third in thrilling trilogy), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj 6.00
Douglass, Sara THE WAYFARER REDEMPTION Book One: Battleaxe, Tor, 3/01, 1st US edn, (story of an ancient prophecy, two brothers bound by blood and divided by hate, and the grand and heroic struggle of one woman’s seach for the truth about the history of her people, by Australia’s most successful author), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj 8.00
Kurtz, Katherine ST. PATRICK'S GARGOYLE, Ace, 2/01, 1st edn, PR laid in, vg-f in dj 8.00
Leiber, Fritz THE BIG TIME, Tor, 4/00, 1st edn (thus), (Hugo winner), PR, f in dj 10.00
MacLeod, Ken THE STONE CANAL, Tor, 1/00, 1st US edn, (novel of the wars and revolutions to come; winner of American Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Fiction), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj 10.00
Perry, Thomas DEATH BENEFITS, Random House '01, 1st edn, (clever mystery set in the high-stakes insurance world; by Edgar Award winner), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj $6
Sheckley, Robert GODSHOME, Tor, 1/99, 1st edn, (fast-paced, witty fantasy in the Unknown Worlds tradition about a bumbling professor who acquires key to the realm of the gods),publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj $8
Slonczewski, Joan A DOOR INTO OCEAN, Arbor House '86, 1st, PR release laid in, vg-f in dj 12.00
Slonczewski, Joan DAUGHTER OF ELYSIUM, AvoNova, 8/93, 1st, (return to the ocean world of Shora of A Door Into Ocean), review slip laid in, vg-f in dj 12.00
Stewart, Sean GALVESTON, Ace, 3/00, 1st edn, (set on island uprooted by magic), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj 8.00
Tarr, Judith & Harry Turtledove HOUSEHOLD GODS, Tor, 9/99, 1st edn, (A Novel of the Depths of Time and the Human Heart), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj 8.00
Turtledove, Harry COLONIZATION: AFTERSHOCKS, Del Rey, 2/01, 1st edn, (#3 in series; alternate history fantasy), PR laid in, vg-f in dj 8.00
Turtledove, Harry DARKNESS DESCENDING, Tor, 4/00, 1st edn, (a novel of world war--and magic; moving sequel to Into the Darkness), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj $8
Vornholt, John STAR TREK: The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave, Book Two, Pocket, 4/01, 1st, (mutagenic promatter persists in posing a cataclysmic menace to life as we know it), publicity release laid in, vg-f in dj $6
Zettel, Sarah THE QUIET INVASION, Warner Aspect, 2/00, 1st, PR release laid in, vg-f in dj 10.00

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