Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
What am I doing in Long Island, you ask? Beats me! I just woke up here. But I woke up after eight gorgeous hours of deep uninterrupted sleep, so I'm not grumpy anymore. In fact, I love everyone again. Slow-moving old people--you're the salt of the earth! Airplanes--what a miracle to live in the age of low-cost mass air transport! Can you believe I made that trip in only eight safe and cannibalism-free hours? It wasn't that long ago that a trip like that left the Donner Party eating each other.
And above all, I love PR genius Eden Gordon, who in yet another move of PR genius told me to check into this obscure hotel in Long Island, where the policy against bringing hookers into the room after midnight is extremely strict, and where I'd be sure to get a good night's sleep. Right she was! Thank you, PR genius Eden Gordon, who is indeed the Garden of Eden when it comes to PR. She's got me on Fox and Friends this morning at 7:30 EST. She's got me lots of other appearances today, too. Just flip on the TV or the radio; you'll probably see me. Anyone need the world's best publicist? She's PREden on Twitter.
Basic, my publisher (cue hissing from the audience) refused to pay for this hotel room. It wasn't in their budget, they said. I guess authors are supposed to sleep on the luggage carousel as soon as it stops spinning and knock off the whining about it. It's also not in the bookstores--Basic says the bookstores didn't order it. You can buy it on Amazon, though.
But no worries about that. I had a great night's sleep, I love the world, and I've decided that I love it so much that I'm going to give it my book. If I can't make money on it, so what. I'm young and healthy; I'll make money some other way, and I'm not in it for the money, though it would be nice: I just genuinely think it's important for people to understand why Margaret Thatcher matters. We all desperately need to discuss these questions as we head toward the election. I think the world would be a better place if we all grasped the significance of Margaret Thatcher and her achievements. I genuinely do.
So if you want a copy, or know someone who would benefit from having one, drop PREden a note on Twitter. We'll e-mail the whole thing to you.
For free.
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Aug '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Miss Berlinksi, nice appearance on F&F this morning. We just got expanded basic cable and the TV happened to be on Fox as I was getting ready for work and I thought to myself, that woman looks familiar, and not the one who looks like Wesley Snipes. Nice job.
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Thanks. I liked her, actually. A little ideologically confused, but a nice woman.
May '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Claire, are you coming to Philadelphia by any chance?
May '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
From this glorious "I love humanity" moment to the screed promising to burn all your books?
I propose that you first try to SELL books to the Ricochet Community. Then, if that doesn't work, you cam burn them.
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
I love humanity so much that I'd like to get them worked up about something that matters, you know?
I've sort of given up on selling the book. I'm really just hoping to reverse the recession now. I swear to you, Margaret Thatcher's advice is relevant to the problem.
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Alas, no. Maybe next time.
Jun '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Very well, dropped a note to Ms.Gordon on twitter a few hours ago. Looking forward to learning more about Margaret Thatcher, courtesy of the Garden of Eden & Claire Berlinski. :-)
Enjoyed listening to your talk on Specific Gravity this week. Also, absolutely loved your Standpoint article from 2 weeks ago, so informative it was. Reread it again this week - it was good to see you link to the responses from Today's Zaman on Ricochet. Admirable piece of work! (i.e. the Standpoint article, not the Bülent Keneş' one, oops)
Edited on Sep 10, 2010 at 8:55amJul '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
My heart wrenches that you're in my hometown and I'm not there to buy you a cup of coffee as well as a copy of your book for myself. I'd love to order a free copy of the book, but I think all of us on Ricochet would rather see you profit and the economy grow from its sale, so I will be buying myself that copy. As for your coffee, well, I'll let you know when I'm in Istanbul!
Jul '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
A full night's sleep makes Claire sound like a socialist...Good to know.
Her policies matter. Her narrative matters. The choices she faced are disturbingly similar to what we're facing now, except almost no one is bothering to actually MAKE choices at all, so I have to think her example is only going to continue becoming more and more significant over the next several years. And the 80's are back, in fashion, in culture, even television. The best new series on the air is easily "This is England '86." Basic's ignorance is painfully unfortunate. Without them suing you, how far can you go towards distributing the material itself for profit online? Stephen King did some interesting things a few years back with direct-sale digital books...I'd start cheap, but not free. You're worth the money.
Edited cause distributing and disturbing mean very different things...
Edited on Sep 10, 2010 at 11:58amRe: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
You know--I live in Turkey. They want to sue me, they can stand in line.
May '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Didn't W. C. Fields say something like that? At least I should be starting you book this weekend.
Claire Berlinski
Alas, no. Maybe next time. · Sep 10 at 8:48am
May '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Claire, which do you recommend I buy first, Why Margaret Thatcher Matters or Menace in Europe?
May '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Since my beloved daughter lives in the UK, I don't need to read all the bad news about the destruction of Europe right now. I just set the Ricochet example and bought my copy of "No Alternative" at Amazon.
Go ye therefore and do likewise.
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
This is like asking me which one of my children I'd save in a fire, you know.
May '10
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Ahh, so the youngest wins. Gotcha.
I just purchased both your children. You may visit them on weekends.
Edited on Sep 10, 2010 at 2:05pmMay '10
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Claire Berlinski
This is like asking me which one of my children I'd save in a fire, you know. · Sep 10 at 1:44pm
Hard to take this very seriously when you had just promised to torch your babies in a media demo.
Re: Good Morning, Long Island! Who Wants a Free Copy of My Book?
Sometimes you have to burn the village to save it, you know.