Just to (I hope) amuse you, I'm going to tell you what I went through to get all these answers. See what you made me do!
5, 8, 14, 15, 16, and 19 I got right off the bag, easy.
Next step required knowing your publisher. I went to the DAW website and poked around, netting Patrick Rothfuss, and gathering additional names for Amazon.com searches.
Then, knowing who many of your friends are, to went to Amazon.com and look up all books by, for instance, "Patricia Bray," and checked out the covers.
Then I asked Amazon for all books in the category "Fantasy" and the words "Book 1" in the name. Netted a few more.
Then I asked Amazon for recommendations, to try to get some of the newer books that I might not know about yet. This netted Jim Butcher.
Then I knew you had to have drawn from some big bestsellers that I still wasn't getting, so I started looking for "Terry Goodkind" and so on. That actually took several rounds, because those guys have been repubbed with different covers. Ah, maddening, I tell you! Google Images helped clear that fog eventually.
Working Amazon was helpful, but sometimes frustrating. For example, Poison Study shows on Amazon only with the trade edition cover, so I passed it over several times. (Two days later, ddrpolaris called it, and I finally thought to click on the "search inside this book" tag and see the mass market edition cover.)
And as last resort, I appealed to the masses of my f'list. I'm very proud that I was able to get two more on my own before my f'list got six for me.
This was a great diversion. I'm not sure I'd be up for another round soon, but I had a great several evenings playing detective!
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Date: 2008-06-12 12:59 am (UTC)5, 8, 14, 15, 16, and 19 I got right off the bag, easy.
Next step required knowing your publisher. I went to the DAW website and poked around, netting Patrick Rothfuss, and gathering additional names for Amazon.com searches.
Then, knowing who many of your friends are, to went to Amazon.com and look up all books by, for instance, "Patricia Bray," and checked out the covers.
Then I asked Amazon for all books in the category "Fantasy" and the words "Book 1" in the name. Netted a few more.
Then I asked Amazon for recommendations, to try to get some of the newer books that I might not know about yet. This netted Jim Butcher.
Then I knew you had to have drawn from some big bestsellers that I still wasn't getting, so I started looking for "Terry Goodkind" and so on. That actually took several rounds, because those guys have been repubbed with different covers. Ah, maddening, I tell you! Google Images helped clear that fog eventually.
Working Amazon was helpful, but sometimes frustrating. For example, Poison Study shows on Amazon only with the trade edition cover, so I passed it over several times. (Two days later,
And as last resort, I appealed to the masses of my f'list. I'm very proud that I was able to get two more on my own before my f'list got six for me.
This was a great diversion. I'm not sure I'd be up for another round soon, but I had a great several evenings playing detective!