Priceless
As I mentioned in my previous post - kludge had a story published in an anthology called Machine of Death (first 60 pages free sample). Being an independent/self published novel for various reasons they knew they had a bit of an uphill struggle to get noticed.
Their plan - to try and get everyone to buy copies on the same day (26th), thus slightly gaming the Amazon.com bestseller list and make a splash.
They succeeded.
Incidentally beating 'Life' the Keith Richards (auto)biography into 2nd and 'Broke' by Glenn Beck, with which it shared a launch date, into 3rd.
Beck was not impressed.
At all. Not only exhorting his followers to buy his book (which is fair enough because that is what everyone else has been doing) but slamming the two books that beat his as part of the Liberal death culture that is destroying America.
My husband is part of what's "wrong" with America - I'm so proud. And deeply amused.
The related bits of twitter now seemed to have turned into a Machine of Death vs Glenn Beck with people posting to #machineofdeath finding themselves put on some interesting hate lists by Beck's supporters while other people are appealing to everyone to buy MoD just to annoy Beck more.
Just to add to the fun - apparently Beck's producers got in touch with the editors to ask for a copy of the book... whether the response to this was actually to point them towards the Amazon page where it could be bought is not clear but is am amusing thought.
Their plan - to try and get everyone to buy copies on the same day (26th), thus slightly gaming the Amazon.com bestseller list and make a splash.
They succeeded.
Incidentally beating 'Life' the Keith Richards (auto)biography into 2nd and 'Broke' by Glenn Beck, with which it shared a launch date, into 3rd.
Beck was not impressed.
At all. Not only exhorting his followers to buy his book (which is fair enough because that is what everyone else has been doing) but slamming the two books that beat his as part of the Liberal death culture that is destroying America.
My husband is part of what's "wrong" with America - I'm so proud. And deeply amused.
The related bits of twitter now seemed to have turned into a Machine of Death vs Glenn Beck with people posting to #machineofdeath finding themselves put on some interesting hate lists by Beck's supporters while other people are appealing to everyone to buy MoD just to annoy Beck more.
Just to add to the fun - apparently Beck's producers got in touch with the editors to ask for a copy of the book... whether the response to this was actually to point them towards the Amazon page where it could be bought is not clear but is am amusing thought.