Hey Bookshelf Battlers,
Just a quick thank you to fellow book lovers out there for the help provided to me in just 24 hours. Last night I was around 1900, maybe a little over, twitter followers. After a push for 2000, I’m at 2035 as of tonight. That wasn’t meant to be pushy. It was meant to find more people to spread the joy of the written word to! So thank you everyone, you’re all very cool.
Folks, I love the technologically advanced time we’re living in – a time where we’ve become the gatekeepers, a time where if you have something to say, your ability to say it does not depend on who you know. You can just log on, blog on, and say it. To ruin that sentiment with an Austin Powers quote, this is all “very groovy baby, yeah!”
This hopefully the beginning and the best is yet to come. I don’t mean to brag, gloat, or show a lack of humility, because honestly, humble is my middle name. I should just change the blog to “Bookshelf Humble Battle.” I suppose what I’m trying to say is, if a) you all stick with me and tell your peeps to join the ride and b) I can kick my own butt to get into gear, then I think within a year to a year-and-a-half I’ll have produced some awesome reading material. Blogging and Self-Publishing=the way of the future.
Well, heck, now that I wrote that, I have to do it, lest egg be on my face in a year to a year and a half. Someone call me out on the carpet if by mid-2016 I haven’t published something awesome please. Thank you.
Finally, I try not to get too political on this blog because, well, come on, whoever we are, however we vote, can’t we all hold hands and come together in the spirit of promoting fantastic books? But I have to say the whole debacle with The Interview irked me. The idea that some tin pot dictator thinks he can tell our Hollywood Executives that they are not allowed to air their crappy movie is outrageous! This is America! Land of the Free and Home of the Brave Baby, where our Hollywood Executives have a god given right to produce their own crappy movies and distribute them on their own terms!
So that being said, if you have nothing better to do (and who are you kidding, you know you don’t because you’re reading this ) then do your patriotic duty and log on to You Tube to watch The Interview!
ROGEN/FRANCO 2016!!!
In conclusion, apologies for all this philosophical babbling folks. Bottomline: You keep reading. I’ll keep writing.
Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Happy Hanukah. Happy Kwanza. Happy Whatever Holidays I Missed, and If You’re an Atheist, Have a Top Notch Thursday!
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