That was a different guy, Lloyd.
Meanwhile, lots o' fun in Kevin's guestbook. Aside from the folks from Cheap Viagra who really love his book, many of the others only seem to be there to pimp their own books (by a weird coincidence they're all PA authors (including the guy who doesn't know how to spell "author")).
Here's
what Kevin has to say about his publicist:
I'm not sure any publisher will hire a publicist for new authors, however, one is a great idea. I hired one on my own and my book reached best seller status on Amazon.com. It has rally fallen off, but for that short period of time it felt great, not to mention I can now call myself a Best Selling author forever.
You can call yourself anything you like, Kevin, but calling doesn't make it so. How were your royalties?
Currently
The Palace of Wisdom: A Rock and Roll Fable has an Amazon.com Sales Rank of #2,534,960 in Books, which is hardly stellar.
Per Ingram's automated stock number (1 615 213 6803)
The Palace of Wisdom has:
Total on hand: 0
Total on order: 0
Total on backorder: 0
This week's unadjusted demand: 0
Last week's adjusted demand: 0
Total sales this year: 0
Total sales last year: 11
Now for the AIP book,
Shortcut:
On hand: 0
On order: 40
On backorder: 2
This week's unadjusted demand: 163
Last week's adjusted demand: 212
Total sales this year: 1,119
Total sales last year: 0
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I'm thinking that the problem reported by Seattle Mystery Bookshop and in PW may just be scratching the surface. 1,119 copies of an overpriced anthology that no one's ever heard of? Orders at the rate of 100-200 a week?
If even half of those were fraudulent, we're up in the dollar-loss area where law enforcement might take a serious interest.