sheldrake

Hello! I keep meaning to write words here, but meaning's all very well, isnt' it?

So... the Machine of Death publicity stunt on October 26 went awfully well. We went to number 1 in the Amazon sales rankings and stayed there for over 24 hours, which was really rather fun! For a while we were at 1, Keith Richards' autobiography was at 2, and Glenn Beck's book about how liberals are ruining the world (ie America) was at 3. Amusingly, Beck noticed this and went on a bizarre rant on his radio show about how, basically, us and Keith Richards were the voice of the Liberal Left and everything that is wrong with America today. SO COOL. Nobody has ever said that about me before! He called us the 'culture of death'. You can imagine how stoked we all were. You can read about it and listen to the clip here.

And for anyone who is still remotely interested, the book is now also available as a free pdf and podcast, and paid Kindle and e-Pub editions. There will also be Nook and iPad editions at some point. More info here.

And that's that.

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I would love to go on and chat about other interesting things happening in my life, but it appears there are none. I could tell you about the 3 amp fuses I still haven't bought, if you like. No? Ok.

I do have a half-written post about various Marquesses of Bristol, who I personally find fascinating, but I suddenly realised it read like a school project by a 12-year-old. Perhaps I'll put it up under a cut labelled 'Marquesses of Bristol project' and then anyone who really wants to read a school project about some Marquesses can. Anyway, they weren't all Marquesses. One or two were just Earls.

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Oh, I could tell you what I've been reading. I've been reading ghost stories (MR James, Susan Hill). MR James wrote the most frightening sheet-related incident I've ever read. Also Armistead Maupin (Michael Tolliver Lives) and Diana Wynne Jones (Fire and Hemlock). I read these last two in a weekend, during which I was feeling most unwell. They were excellent comfort reading. Oh, and I'm reading a book about the history of domestic servants, what I discovered in Oxfam.