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I've got the t-shirt (from the American Library Association) that reads:

Free people write books
Free people publish books
Free people sell books
Free people buy books
Free people read books

I missed the memo that said I didn't have to do all of these things myself.

I publish books through my company, The Crum Creek Press, which does reference books for mystery readers under the Drood Review Books imprint and fiction under The Mystery Company imprint.

I sell books in my small independent bookstore in Carmel, Indiana, which is also called The Mystery Company.

I don't exactly write books, but I contribute essays to books and newsletters, I'm the mystery expert for Thomson Gale's semiannial genre fiction guide What Do I Read Next?, and I've edited a few books, including three that have won awards. My latest book is Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers, published in November 2006.

I buy more than my share of books, not just because I'm buying to stock the store but to stock our home too. (The Erasmus line -- "When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes" -- is all too apt.)

As for reading books? That's what got me into trouble in the first place.

Jim Huang
c/o The Mystery Company
233 Second Ave SW
Carmel, IN 46032

In a probably futile effort to fight spammers, I'm providing my email address here as text rather than as a link (replace "at" and the spaces before and after it with an at sign "@":
jim at themysterycompany.com

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