Love in Dark Settings

I had written that I'd want to read a particular author's work before buying a book by them. lee_rowan pointed me to a free short story by that author at All Romance e-books.

My reply:

(*Rushes over to All Romance.*)

However (not to sound ungrateful, which I undoubtedly do), this seems the proper time to explain why free online samples and free short fiction aren't of much use to me when I'm deciding whether to buy a book.

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I love receiving comments here (as those of you who have heard my pleas for comments already know). But because I have to limit my online time, it's difficult for me to reply separately to a dozen or more comments that have been posted since I was online last, especially since I read those comments offline.

In order that I can reply in a timely manner to all comments, I'm starting a new policy of replying periodically, in a round-up post, to all recent comments. The round-up post will be tagged this way:

Dreamwidth: reply to comments.
InsaneJournal: reply to comments.
LiveJournal: reply to comments.

If you're watching this journal regularly on your Friends/Read/RSS page, you'll see the "reply to comments" post when I post it. If you're not watching this journal regularly, just wait about a week (between April and September) or about a month (between October and March) and click on one of the above links. You should see my reply posted to you, along with replies to all other recent comments. I'll link to the comments I'm replying to.

I'm sorry that this is somewhat less convenient to folks posting here than me posting a reply directly to your comment, and I hope that this won't discourage you from posting comments. I think this will help me to respond to comments more quickly than I have in the past.