Day: October 1, 2003

I’m curious.

Right now, Gods Above is ranked at #349 on Amazon. Stone and Anvil is at #1481 and No Limits is at #1246, but neither of them have even shipped yet.

What I want to know is, can we push those numbers even higher? Can we get Gods Above into the top 250,and Stone and Anvil and No Limits into the top 1000?

If we can, it’ll truly help illustrate how useful this website is, and how much we can use it to help push some of Peter’s other projects along. By demostrating how strong Peter’s fan base is, we’ll be much more likely to get other projects going just on the strength on you, the fans of his work, which we can use to convince publishers to print some of Peter’s other work.

And if it goes even higher… well, I’m sure I can come up with something special to put on the website…

UPDATE: 6 PM — Gods Above is at 294 on the list, and is at #12 for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Keep it up! The bat is– oops, wrong weblog.

BRIDE OF UPDATE: 7:45 PM No Limits is now up to 942. Yow! Just a brief mention, and you make it happen. Amazing. (Dare I hope for top 500?)

We have potential for the tussle of a lifetime, folks. Just picture this for a moment. Savor it. Contemplate the ramifications in these four magical words:

Cubs Versus Red Sox.

Two perennial losers. Two World Series wastes of space, going head to head. The match-up that you can only envision ending in the seventh game, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, game’s tied…and a meteor hits the stadium and obliterates both teams.

Seriously: Who would you root for? I’m not interested in the opinions of fans of the respective teams. I’m talking about people such as–well, myself–who have no vested interest one way or the other. And all of you who are poised over your keyboard about to pretentiously announce that you don’t give a dámņ about baseball…shut the f**k up, would’ja, please?

Me, I’m thinking the Sox, just to get poor Bill Buckner off the hook.

Any thoughts? Let’s ponder it now before events in the playoffs make it moot.

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