As long as everyone else is going berserk over “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” sales,
we may as well jump in and mention a few special deals of our own.
First off, in the run-up to the release of
THE RECOGNITION REJECTION on Friday, December 1st, we’re selling the Kindle edition of
THE RECOGNITION RUN at a special book-release sale price of $0.99.
BUY IT NOW.
Secondly, we are now taking pre-orders for
THE RECOGNITION REJECTION, also at the special book-release sale price of $0.99.
BUY IT NOW.
I have got to come up with a better-looking “BUY IT NOW” button. Maybe I can get one from Squelch Design, the nice folks who let us use their
big blue “Follow us on facebook” button in exchange for a promotional plug.
Thirdly, we have a whole pile of free e-book deals coming up next week, beginning on Cyber Monday and ending on Book-Release Friday. Which books are we going to be giving away free? Well, you’ll just have to come back on Monday morning to find out.
Finally,
Black Sunday is of course the 1975 novel by Thomas Harris (better known as the creator of Hannibal Lechter), later made into a movie, in which Palestinian terrorists attack the Super Bowl by the incredibly clever means of convincing deranged ex-Navy blimp pilot Michael Lander (played by Bruce Dern, Hollywood’s go-to guy for crazy in the 1970s), to take a weaponized Goodyear blimp on a suicide dive into the stadium. Really.
Oh, the humanity.
Understandably, Harris stuck to writing about Hannibal Lechter after this book.
2 comments:
I wonder. When Harris first pitched this book, do you suppose neither he nor his editor at Putnam realized that the reason why the Hindenburg disaster was so disastrous was because the ship was filled with highly flammable hydrogen, and that all modern airships like the Goodyear blimps are filled with safely inert helium?
In the book (yes, I read it), they turned the bottom of the blimp’s gondola (or whatever you call it) into a giant claymore mine. The idea was the pilot would fly low over the field and trigger the explosive when he was right over the midfield logo. At least, I think that was the plan. It’s been close to 30 years since I read the book.
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