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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 8/26 -

Radio talk show host Mike Gallagher, "the  happy conservative warrior," has written a book: 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate. It's official launch is in a few days, but copies can be pre-ordered at Amazon. Walmart and steakhouses cracked the list. At the moment it is ranked 7,336, not bad but not nearly as high as I would have expected for a book that is being promoted every day to thousands, if not millions, of listeners. Gallagher has also endorsed the anti-Obama documentary, 2016, which is doing well at the box office. I'm surprised that I still haven't heard any criticism of it from Democrats. It is now the sixth ranked political documentary of all-time, although it is a long shot to surpass Michael Moore's most successful films. The left's silence is curious. Are they hoping the film will simply go away? Are they afraid commentary will attract interest and more viewers?
It's now been almost two years since a police Sergeant shooed the floating book shop from busy 86th Street and 20th Avenue. He said he didn't want to see me anywhere along the commercial strip. I thought about setting up on the even busier Bay Parkway and 86th today, as business at 85th Street has been slow on Sundays. Alas, I lacked the nerve. I've never been a trouble maker. I'm not someone who would defy a cop, although I might be seething within. About an hour into today's session I was kicking myself, as the results were obvious. It was brutal, salvaged only by an eleventh hour sale of Judith Krantz's Scruples Two, the sequel to her wildly popular '70's potboiler. I suppose it was just as possible that I would have been ignored by 500 passersby a block away instead of 200. Fortunately, I had some good news from Amazon. I reached the payout threshold for Kindle sales and borrows for Killing and All Hallows. Thanks, folks.
Visit Vic’s sites:
Vic’s Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic’s Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic’s Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic’s 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic’s 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic’s Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3

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