Posts Tagged with "Blatant Self-Promotion"

My (Our) new book (Kampf)

Friday, January 12, 2007

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People have asked me, “What did you write before Barry Trotter?” The answer is, “A lot.” Over the past five months, after scouring every hard drive and filing cabinet, I’ve collected the best of that writing–a big chunk of which was done with supragenius Jonathan Schwarz–into a book called Our Kampf. It’s now available on [...]

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People ask me questions, stuff like…

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

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“So, Mike, why the hell don’t you post to your blog anymore? I mean, understand we never enjoy it that much, but since most of us have actual real jobs and all you do is sit around tapping away at that smudgy eMac of yours (often in your boxer shorts, don’t ask us how we [...]

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Oh my GOD! Somebody finally GETS it!

Friday, August 11, 2006

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Reviews, I’m here to tell you, suck. When they’re good, they’re never quite good enough, and when they’re bad, you’re convinced that they’ve just ended your career. Humor writing is particularly ill-starred in this regard (as it is in every regard save making readers laugh). Nothing is more subjective and personal than somebody’s sense of [...]

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Barry News from Britain, and other publishing crap

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

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[/caption] First of all, sales for Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody continue to climb; the book’s still at #10 in the London Sunday Times HB fiction list. The redoubtable Simon also tells me that we’re going back for a five-figure reprint (#3), so Kate and I are flying high. I was surprised to see [...]

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Pick your Hogwash House…

Thursday, October 3, 2002

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A self-described “Trottermaniac” from Britain, Simon Stevenson, has created an online quiz to determine which Hogwash House the that horrible senile Picking Cap would put you in. Check it out. If you think you’ve been put in the wrong House (“There’s no way I’m Silverfish! I HATE Dorco!”) you can plead your case directly to [...]

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Still Shamelessly #9

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

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Any creditors reading this blog will be happy to know that Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody is once again slated to be listed number #9 on the Sunday London Times list. The better news is that it sold 40% more books! Apparently T. Clancy, D. Steele, S. King and all those other fly-by-nights clogging [...]

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Barry Trotter, Friend of the Proletariat

Monday, September 30, 2002

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Anybody who’s interested can check out the review of Barry Trotter from last week’s Morning Star, Britain’s leading Marxist daily. Hey, I’ll take praise from anybody. Really. Except for people with two different-colored eyes, they’re creepy.

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Barry Rampant

Thursday, September 26, 2002

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Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody is getting reviewed like crazy in Britain and, from what my editor says, reviews are good. He may simply be protecting my oh-so-fragile ego, wise man. I wilt so easily. From The Morning Star, the UK’s only national daily socialist paper: “Gerber has succeeded in creating a marginally grotesque, [...]

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Something Ketchuppy, eh?

Tuesday, September 24, 2002

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While I was shopping today I noticed a contest Heinz ketchup is running. The back of the bottle reads, “Sometimes our label gets tired of saying ‘Tomato Ketchup’ all the time.” [That's between you and the FDA, chum. Leave us out of it.] “So it will make a joke about french fries or have some [...]

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It’s official (?)–Barry’s Number 10

Tuesday, September 24, 2002

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Need I add “with a bullet”? Check out the list here. As the British say, “fuckin’ a!”

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