Greg Taylor of The Daily Grail tweeted this link today. It's a short, funny, and smart skit featuring John Cleese as a scientist seeking to explain the whole world in terms of reductionistic materialism.
Yes, I'm on Twitter now, though so far I haven't had much to say. My Twitter identity is M_Prescott2011 .
Or should that be @M_Prescott2011 ? I don't know. It's all new to me.
I intend to use Twitter mainly to promote my ebooks, if I can figure out how. By my count, I've sold 140,000 ebooks so far this year. When I started, I thought I'd be lucky to sell 500 a year.
Thanks, Michael! That John Cleese piece is PERFECT, and really funny.
On a day that's been pretty frustrating overall, I can honestly say: I needed that!
Posted by: Bruce Siegel | July 20, 2011 at 04:50 PM
But then again, don't take my last remark too seriously. There's a gene that makes people write appreciative comments in blogs.
Posted by: Bruce Siegel | July 20, 2011 at 04:57 PM
Nice, Michael. Sounds like a good chunk of change! I plan to launch an ebook soon too. I'll check out the link...
Posted by: Matt Rouge | July 20, 2011 at 06:06 PM
Don't get too cocky, I bought 139,999 of them. ;)
Seriously, that's so awesome!
Posted by: J9 | July 20, 2011 at 06:43 PM
"I've sold 140,000 ebooks so far this year. "
Wow-I looked at the first part of this post and didn't even see that figure til I read Matt's comment. Congratulations!
You must feel pretty good about it, and rightfully so. I remember well that when you first went the ebook route, you mentioned it casually, as if it were just a silly little unimportant thing to do.
How have people been finding out about your ebooks?
Posted by: Bruce Siegel | July 20, 2011 at 06:50 PM
J9 said:
"Don't get too cocky, I bought 139,999 of them. ;)"
By any chance, are you into piano instructional materials?
:o)
Posted by: Bruce Siegel | July 20, 2011 at 06:52 PM
Bruce said "by any chance are you into piano instructional materials?"
No Bruce, but I'm willing to learn though! Double :o)
Posted by: J9 | July 20, 2011 at 07:15 PM
"How have people been finding out about your ebooks?"
The most useful thing has been to promote the books on the Amazon discussion boards. Many of these boards are focused on Kindle titles, and authors' "shameless self-promotion" is encouraged on some of them.
Facebook has also been useful, and I am hoping Twitter will be, once I come up with a plan on how to use it.
Posted by: Michael Prescott | July 20, 2011 at 09:51 PM
Hilarious, thanks!! Any clue as to why/for what purpose this was produced, a particular show or series?
Posted by: Thanks for letting me believe | July 21, 2011 at 04:03 AM
Thank you for the hilarious video Michael and Greg! I have to pass this one around to my materialist friends.
And Michael, as far as the e-book sales go, doncha know? Gerald Woerlee downloaded 140,000 of 'em. After you spend all the money, he's gonna come after you for his money back. Something about being under the influence of hypoxia. Or was it hypercarbia? I swear, sometimes after reading his NDE "explanations", it seems like he's been huffing something. :-)
Legal disclaimer note for the roast-humor challenged - this is a joke.
Posted by: RabbitDawg | July 21, 2011 at 05:34 AM
Dr. Woerlee can afford them. He is an anesthesiologist--the ultimate kind of doctor.
Posted by: Matt Rouge | July 21, 2011 at 05:46 PM
Thanks to Bruce, Matt, and J9 for the kind words about my sales. Yes, it's true that I did not expect to sell many ebooks and am very surprised at the way things are going.
"Any clue as to why/for what purpose this was produced, a particular show or series?"
Sorry, no idea.
Posted by: Michael Prescott | July 21, 2011 at 07:13 PM
That was hilarious. While watching it, I had a feeling one of the lines would be about how quantum physics has pretty much ruined materialism, and I'm so glad they did.
Posted by: Cody | July 22, 2011 at 01:51 AM
Wow Michael I'm very pleased to hear how well it is going for you. Your fiction is some of the best I have read in the thriller / mystery genre, so I'm glad to see it doing so well.
Posted by: Matthew C. | July 23, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Thanks, Matthew! I'm riding the ebook wave!
Posted by: Michael Prescott | July 23, 2011 at 01:38 PM