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…I will listen to people who are wiser than I, and I will get it through my thick skull that no good can ever come of me walking into a Barnes & Noble and looking for my newly released novel.

Why?

Because authors tend to the neurotic, and I’m one of those who ruins the curve for the rest of the class. 😳

If they don’t have the book, my assumption is never "They sold out," but rather "They didn’t bother to order it."

If there are lots of the new book, my assumption is "It’s not selling."

If (as was the case today), there are only a couple (and they weren’t even shelved in the new releases, where they should have been), then my assumption is that they didn’t bother to order more than a few of them, because they didn’t expect them to sell.

Notice, of course, that in all three cases, the correct answer could be "Hey, the book’s selling." But that’s never my first assumption. 😛

I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s either the completion of the book, or the beginnings of a seizure.

74055 / 80000 words. 93% done!

You know those quizzes where, depending on your answers to several questions, it decides which one of several options you are? You know, a "What D&D character class are you?" or "What breed of otter are you?" sort of thing?

Are there templates for that? That is, if I wanted to create my own multiple-choice, multiple-possible-answer quiz, is there anywhere I can go to just plug in the questions and answers, and it’ll create the quiz for me, ready either for hosting on that site, or for easy transplanting to my own?

Okay, back to the grind.

64679 / 80000 words. 81% done!

The road goes ever on and on…

66814 / 80000 words. 84% done!

This just in. Not every conversation that involves WotC or Paizo–or even WotC and Paizo–needs to turn into an edition war. No, really, they don’t.

Especially when it’s a conversation ignited by something as serious as layoffs.

So for Pete’s sake, quit it.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled edition warsInternet.