06 January 2006 Blog Home : January 2006 : Permalink
What I find fascinating is the democratization of what was once the privilege of aristocracy: to patronize the artist and so have your mug (or, in this case, name) immortalized.
That Jim Baen has arrived at a way to cash in on this tickles me to no end.
Well one of Baen's authors - John Ringo - is democratizing things even more in an effort to get his thriller/S&M bikini ripper listed as the #1 Romance Novel in the Preditors and Editors poll where he is throwing out promises to redshirt people with rank dependant on the publicity they bring:
Given that my brain is still cackling evilly at the thought of Ghost as a "Romance" novel I just have to publicise this and ask my reader(s) to please vote early, get the word out, but not vote often unless thy are sure they won't get caught because that would be cheating. Oh and do read the book - first few chapters online at the link above - and the amazon reviews. And for that matter all the other reviews. A lot of people have got their knickers in a twist over this book.