No, I’m Not Writing Diet Books

So my ex-wife dropped me a message the other day: she asked if I was writing diet books.

I said, “No. Why?”

And she sent me this link:

The Mediterranean Diet

Much to my astonishment, the author is Peter David and, even more bizarrely, Amazon has my bio attached. Even better, when you click on his name, it sends you to my books.

This guy has written at least half a dozen books on weight loss and fitness. And he’s not me. Yes, I am dieting, but no, I’m not writing books about it. I tried to post about it to one of the comments sections and naturally Amazon bounced it because it believes I’m the author and authors can’t comment.

So please don’t bring these books up to me to sign at conventions, okay?

PAD

10 comments on “No, I’m Not Writing Diet Books

  1. I hope that the following is helpful: From amazon.com:

    Publishers should use Vendor Central to submit corrections or additions to catalog information and descriptive text.
    https://vendorcentral.amazon.com/

    Authors can update descriptive text using Author Central.
    https://authorcentral.amazon.com/

    Corrections to fields that are not supported by this form may be sent to Customer Service. Please include the following:
    • The ISBN/ASIN of your item listed.
    • Full details of the change requested.
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  2. I had a nice chat with amazon’s customer service, so you might be hearing from them soon. It also seems to me that you should be able to use their Author Central link to deal with books that have been misattributed to you. But what do I know? Good luck.

  3. “Yes, I am dieting”

    This from the guy who said in that one BID column “Diets don’t work”…no less than THREE separate times!

    What diet didn’t work for you back then? The One-Sara-Lee-Pie-A-Day diet?

    1. Dieting generally does not work, no. Because typical dieting involves changing the way one eats for a particular period of time, until the goal weight is reached, at which point the person goes back to eating the way they did. And the weight then comes right back. Furthermore, there are many articles documenting how the body strives to gain back weight once it is lost, as any number of people who lost weight on “The Biggest Loser” can attest.

      I say I’m dieting because it’s the simplest, fastest way to summarize what I am doing. What I am actually doing is far more involved than that, and thus far–since I’ve lost 42 pounds since I started it–it appears to be working.

      So you could congratulate me on that, or you can continue to be a dìçk. Your choice.

      PAD

      1. My choice is to point out that you should consider yourself lucky that your ex-wife communicates with you at all, considering that you symbolically administered the death penalty to her in the opening pages of Aquaman #40.

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  4. I wondered what happened to that guy who wrote about the first Gulf War. Nice to hear he’s still writing.

    1. Actually, that Peter David died in 2012, sadly enough. When he passed, my email account again exploded from people simply reading that “Peter David died” in headlines and didn’t read the actual story.

      PAD

      1. I intended that as a casual, flippant remark. I had no intention of getting heavy on that…

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