The "$10,000 book" got marked down.

The "$10,000 book" is out. But for circumstances beyond my control, I had to price it at $2,999.99.

And again, this is my reasoning: since no one would buy my books for fifteen dollars, they might as well not buy them for then thousand dollars.

I really wanted to have a book published that would cost $10,000. I wanted to go to Amazon and find my ten thousand dollar book and shout, "Woo-hoo!" Because ten thousand dollars is a lot of money. Or so I thought.

But not so for a book on Amazon. I just did a search and found:

The case of the irate witness: A Perry Mason mystery, and other stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (Hardcover - 1973)
1 used from $55,364,960.99
Seller: Mr. Affordable

And then I see that there are hundreds of other books that are listed for millions of dollars. So pretty much everyone has one goof book on Amazon listed for thousands of dollars or more. And my dream of having one of the most expensive published books faded away.

So my third book, Librarianship: "THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL": a $2,999.99 book is listed for $2,999.99 and not $10,000. Because then it would have a different title, dummy.

I don't really have anything else to say about it. But as soon as I order a few copies for myself, I will hold a raffle and give a couple away.

But I am working on a fourth book, one that will be priced under $20. Because it seems unfair to anyone who doesn't want to buy any of my books, to not buy them simply because of price. To say, "Oh, the effing librarian isn't worth $2,999.99" isn't much of an argument. I want to give everyone the opportunity to not buy my books, not because they are cheap bastards, but because they think I suck.

So am I famous?

I just saw that the article that Library Journal has on their web page that mentions "the Effing Librarian" is also in the October 15 issue (p. 44, last paragraph).

Does that mean that I can say on this page, "as seen in Library Journal"? Groovus!

yes, i'm disappointed

Not one of you has signed up for the bowling team. Yes, I know it won't exist for another 15 years and it's also just in my imagination, but I gotta reserve the lanes now.

And I had to lock in the team name. And no thanks to you, I had my mom pick one. The bowling shirts have the cutest little kitty balanced on top of a bowling ball and it says, The Alley Cats. It's so precious, it'll make you puke.

FYI: For those of you new to this site and don't understand what's going on, I can only tell you this: on a good day, you might read something that's kind of like a prose Zippy cartoon with disjointed logic and surreal references that could only be inside jokes between me and myself.

On a bad day you get posts like this one. And I'm not sorry. If you visit a site called effing anything, you deserve what you get. Now go away. I need to watch some TV and steal ideas from old Snagglepuss cartoons.