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Today is Mur Lafferty’s “Playing for Keeps” run on Amazon. Basically, there is a technique for ramping your sales rank on Amazon up real high by having a large group of purchases in a short period of time. And “The Tribe” has been running through our podcast authors as they get publishing deals and basically doing our best to get some noise going. So I have purchased a copy of “Playing for Keeps.”
I think I’ll like it. It’ll be weird to actually read her voice instead of hearing it piped in the way I usually do. Then again, I’m not real familiar with her fiction. I love her tone, but usually that is form her podcasts “I Should Be Writing” and “Geek Fu Action Grip.”
Anyhow, “Playing for Keeps” is a super hero novel about the other guys. The ones with somewhat less useful abilities, like our heroine Keepsie. her power is that no one can take her stuff away. That’s all. No flying or throwing cars or seeing through steel. I like odd stories and I like comic book style hero stories. But I really did not like the “Wild Card” series, so I am excited and a mite nervous to see how I feel about “Playing for Keeps” once I’ve actually read it.
I’m pretty confident that I am going to enjoy this tale, but if you want to taste before you buy Mur has made “Playing for Keeps” into an audio book as well as a PDF, both of which are currently available for free. So check it out, and then go do your part by purchasing a copy today!
Last night, on the way into work, etherius twittered:
This sounded like a fun little way to actually get involved, to at least pretend to be contributing to a medium that I spend a LOT of time on.
In reality, what I found was A> I can have stage fright in an empty house. B> I suck at pretending out loud. C> I suck at cheering in general. It was rather ridiculous that I was sitting there choking up in front of my mic. Blah. So I pulled up youTube to help me out. I appreciate good dancing, and I figured that I would find it easier to respond for real.
Ha!
I was wrong about that. I normally just sit there silently appreciating. I am watching a real dance off and I have to force myself to vocalize the appreciation for… well, what I am appreciating. Those dudes were pretty impressive and I certainly enjoyed the girl with the long hair, but a grunt here or there with maybe an “ah!” thrown in for good measure is all I would normally do.
I don’t even clap at events. This was soooo uncomfortable.
But really cool, because now I can -feel- how much harder it must be for the guys and gals who are making these audio dramas and podiobooks. On the one hand, this makes me want to get involved even more. And on the other, I don’t think I could do this unless the house was totally and completely empty.
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