{"id":193623,"date":"2008-12-02T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/02\/a-book-plug\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T11:05:00","slug":"a-book-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/02\/a-book-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Plug"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoy reading his posts at Wetmachine<\/a>, and I will be checking out excerpts online (links below):<\/p>\n

From: John R. Sundman
To: me
Subject: A “Very Special” post-Thanksgiving message from John of Wetmachine<\/p>\n

Hey Matthew,<\/p>\n

Although I don’t comment much on 40 years, I do read it quasi-regularly. And I have had you on my blogroll for some while. On that basis, I take the liberty of sending you this “very special” message.<\/p>\n

If you have any inclination at all to buy any of my books (especially a pre-order of The Pains), or to pimp them on your site, now would be a good time to do it.<\/p>\n

I hate doing the hard sell, but the fact is that I’m unemployed and nearly broke, and selling these books is my only source of income. Of course, I could go back to driving a moving van, and will probably do so in January unless the economy is in a total shambles by then. I ran into my old boss, the crazy man called “Trip”, and he said I can drive for him whenever I want. But in these “shopping days” it seems to me that bookpimping might be a better use of my time.<\/p>\n

The thing that’s scaring me, frankly, (besides missing the mortgage, and so forth) is that I haven’t yet pre-sold enough copies of The Pains to pay for an initial print run, and if I don’t see a few hundred more copies in the next week or so, I’m going to have to refund the money to everybody who has put in a pre-order.<\/p>\n

So, I’m putting on the hard sell, & trust our relationship is strong enough to weather a little targeted spam. Which I will be custom-crafting to hundreds of my friends over this Thanksgiving break — thereby either re-igniting my novelistic career, or pissing off every friend I have, or both.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you can pass this info along on my behalf?<\/p>\n

Here’s the intro to The Pains, with an illustration I’m sure you’ll love,<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/item\/1389<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s how to buy my books online:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/shop\/wetmachineshop.html<\/a><\/p>\n

and here’s how by check:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/order\/orderprint.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy post-Thanksgiving,<\/p>\n

jrs <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoy reading his posts at Wetmachine, and I will be checking out excerpts online (links below): From: John R. SundmanTo: meSubject: A “Very Special” post-Thanksgiving message from John of Wetmachine Hey Matthew, Although I don’t comment much on 40 years, I do read it quasi-regularly. And I have had you on my blogroll for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}