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   Will in New Haven to Jim Hetley   
   Re: Another Quick Spam   
   20 Oct 15 05:50:17   
   
   From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 8:10:43 PM UTC-4, Jim Hetley wrote:   
   > On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 8:41:26 AM UTC-4, Will in New Haven wrote:   
   > > On Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 7:19:36 PM UTC-4, Jim Hetley wrote:   
   > > > I have this new book out, under my pseudonym James A. Burton   
   > > >    
   > > > DOMINIONS,  The Bladesmith, Book 2   
   > > >    
   > > > (Sequel to POWERS)   
   > > >    
   > >    
   > > Amazon has one book under Hetley and the other under Burton. Personally, I   
   don't think that is a great way to help readers find books in a series.   
   > >    
   > > I have just started the first book, bought both, and I am enjoying it a   
   lot so far, but...   
   > >    
   > > I would think you would know this and I would have expected your   
   millennia-old smith to know it. He is wrong when he thinks to himself that the   
   use of the word "Persian" to refer to a person is archaic. Persian _is_ an   
   ethnicity. There are Persians    
   and non-Persians in Iran, so the national name, Iranian, does not map one to   
   one with Persian. Persian is also a language, part of the Iranian language   
   family.   
   > >    
   > > And Persian cats are beautiful.   
   > >    
   > > --    
   > > Will in New Haven   
   >    
   > Amazon doesn't show me an easy way to enter a book under a pseudonym.  Mr.   
   Burton is a co-author on DOMINIONS, so the search should work under either   
   name.   
      
   The publisher I work for has similar problems with Amazon. In many cases, they   
   say they do X because "that is what our algorhythms do" and no human   
   intervention can help.   
      
   >    
   > Al is a Grumpy Old Man like me, and often says or thinks things that he   
   knows are inaccurate or inappropriate.  Particularly under stress, as he is in   
   that passage.   
      
   I would have thought he was being untruthful except that, from what I   
   remember, it was in his thoughts and not something he said.   
      
   By the way, I am a little over halfway through and it is really good.   
      
      
   --    
   Will in New Haven   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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