Intersting attempt to promote self-publishing

nihilistic_kid (amongst other folks on my FL) has occasionally often poked fun at the attempts by self-published writers to promote their books, and even recently had one self-published writer attempt to spam his LJ to promote his novel. I'd always thought that was about as impressive a job of chutzpah-based marketing a SPW could come up with.

But I was wrong.

Somehow, a SPW of thrillers managed to get his novel listed by Amazon-generated-spam as a novel that fans of Freakonimics would like. Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt goes into detail in his blog, although he's not sure (any more than I am) how this was pulled off.

Always a good thing on a Saturday

Any time you can come across an article that rips Orson Scott Card a new one, it's a good day. Especially when it's getting a twofer by ripping OSC for his defense of "Intelligent Design."