Now, to find a way to explain it to high school students so that I can see who gets it and who doesn’t… but I’ve a pretty good idea of who’ll be there already, I think.

Wow. That is likely to be my word for the season. I love it.

I wish my sales figures were better as well. But I’m working on getting an agent who will, presumably, help me get my non-fiction books into higher profile publishers’ hands. I may yet see my books published by Oxford or Routledge.

And second, when I say, “Jess Nevins knows everything,” what I mean is, “Jess Nevins knows where to look to find out just about anything.” Which is functionally the same thing, and how it really works.

Finally, while I do wish your sales figures more accurately reflected your awesomeness, I hope you yourself appreciate, looking at that description of your typical Monday afternoon, what an absolutely excellent job you have.

The deleted part of my post, though–that is, what I chose not to post after due consideration–was how those of us who are infomancers can tell the difference between books written without the aid of all the modern resources (i.e., online databases and the Web) and books written with the help of them. There are a couple of mystery and detective encyclopedias I’m thinking of in particular which were clearly written by people who didn’t get online to do their research. My Pulp Heroes will pimp-slap them. Of course, my book will be published by a small publisher, at least in the first edition, and these other books have Big Name Publishers, so these other books pwn me where it counts (sales).

Nonetheless.