Gordon Osmond

Gordon Osmond
Location
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Birthday
November 09
Company
those with whom I choose to keep
Bio
Retired lawyer, playwright, English teacher, tennis umpire. Author of So You Think You Know English: A Guide to English for Those Who Think They Don't Need One. ISBN: 978-1-61546-414-2 and Wet Firecrackers http://www.publishamerica.net/product38929.html Osmond hosts a weekly interactive broadcast dedicated to the discussion of books and ESL education. To participate, check out www.publishamericaauthors.com

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JANUARY 29, 2012 8:54AM

I've been marked down!

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http://www.amazon.com/Wet-Firecrackers-Unauthorized-Autobiography-Gordon/dp/1451275854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327842990&sr=1-1 

 Like Bette Midler in "Ruthless People," I've been marked down--not on Wal-Mart, but on Amazon.

For a limited time, my tell-all unauthorized autobiography, "Wet Firecrackers," can be had on Amazon for less than $6.

 Should I hang my head in shame? Should I apologize to those who paid the much higher original sticker price? Should I cancel vacation plans now that my percentage royalty has been reduced to peanuts. Do I have to make peace with John Blumenthal who has posted something negative about self-promotion?

 What to do? What to do?

http://www.amazon.com/Wet-Firecrackers-Unauthorized-Autobiography-Gordon/dp/1451275854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327842990&sr=1-1

If the link doesn't work, just go to Amazon and search my name.

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I think you should do some shameless promotion of your book at whatever price.

You ought to do it starting right here in OS.

Or....have you already done that?
I added it to my Cart - and the Cart exploded! You promised you were watered down! R
Quickly! Write another book! Keep your name up in lights!

Let me suggest a few titles that should not require too much work. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“The Rational Political Philosophy of Representative Maxine Waters”

“Chaucey DeVega’s List of Non-Racist Entities in America”

“Business Opportunities in Unregulated American Enterprise”

“The Justification for America’s $16 Trillion National Debt”

“Substantive Differences Between the Republican and Democrat Political Parties in America”

. . and. . my favorite . . . .

“The Magna Carta’s Justification of the Individual Mandate in the Affordable Care Act – An Interview with Paul J. O’Rourke”
Good choices Uncle C. They should all run less than a page.
Well. . . . all except for the last one . . . .

PJOR will write the manuscript himself. It will run 5,000 pages. He'll get it done in one night.

Out of 400 chapters, 1 will be about the Magna Carter and 399 will be about how smart he is to have developed the theory.

All Gordon will have to do is submit it as his own work, to which PJOR will agree, simply because even he understands the nature of his credibility and would need Gordon's cache simply to get an editor to look at it . . . as a piece of comedy.
. . . . on the other hand . . . . . brevity is the soul of wit.
You're to classy to be marked down.
Thanks to all for support and sympathy.
The day you know you've made it is when you hit the Dollar Store's bookshelves!! ;D
Here you are, a muti-published author, selling books, collecting roylaties, and probably making fun at the fact that you have been marked. Most of your readers probably wish they had a book published that could be marked in any direction. I am tempted to include myself within such a group, although I have no idea about what I would write.

It's not likely remarks from us wannabes would be entirely motivated by support or sympathy. You probably don't need either. Just pass on to us some of that discipline that produced these works and let us revel in a little 'friendly' competition, eh?

Regardless of the foregoing, good luck and congratulations. I suspect most of us secretly hope you have another book within you, waiting to get out.
Thanks for the kind words, Uncle Chri. Much appreciated.

As a matter of fact, I've just completed my first novel. I've decided to try to get it published by a traditional publisher using a traditional agent rather than the faster methods so much in fashion these days.

I'm sure you have several books in you. Sometimes it's hard to start, but once you have, it comes out steadily and joyously.
The book just received a nice review from BK Walker Books. Book is still selling for a song on Amazon, which also carries the review.
http://bkwalkerbooksetc.blogspot.com/2012/02/wet-firecrackersthe-unauthorized.html