Oh well: You didn’t get a free book!
Posted May 7th, 2010Tags: book, free, Merrill Markoe, Nose Down Eyes Up
UPDATE: I got my ten names. That was fast. Oh well. You missed out. Unless we already had an exchange and you gave me your address. But may I encourage you to please buy a copy of my book in paperback? Because…uh…you need something funny to read and I have to earn a living.
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I say this at the risk of sounding like a radio station, but …the contest lines are now closed. I just finished giving away ten free copies of the paperback version of my most recent novel “Nose Down Eyes Up?”.
If you liked Walking in Circles Before Lying Down, you will probably like this one too.
Its got everything you have come to expect in a recent Merrill Markoe novel : dogs who talk to people who also talk, bad behavior, too many contemporary references. And it just came out in paperback. A huge box of them arrived at my house and I don’t even have that kind of shelf space. Plus I need to figure out how to publicize the book a little. The hard cover came out the day after the Christmas after the economy collapsed. That wasn’t a good time to put a book out, oddly enough.
Too bad you missed the big contest. It was the best reason for not writing that I have had in an hour.
One Jonestown Koolaid Grande
Posted May 3rd, 2010Apparently some residents of Guyana are trying to resurrect Jonestown as a tourist attraction, according to an article in today’s New York Times.
Immediately I began to imagine visiting this place, since it is certainly the kind of thing I would pull off the road to see if I were for some reason traveling between Venezuela and Brazil. 
Then I began to imagine the souvenirs that would be for sale. Would I buy the tee shirt? Probably. Would I also want to buy a pen and a back scratcher? Almost definitely. Would they be selling cups and shot glasses that say Jonestown? Not sure. It would be in such bad taste. But even harder to figure: will there be a stand selling Kool Aid? And if there is, will people line up to buy some and be photographed drinking it in a cup that you get to keep that says “I drank the Kool Aid at Jonestown?”