Friday, July 8, 2005

WILLIAM WHO? J.K. Rowling, who apparently has written a series of popular children's books based on the childhood for M*A*S*H's Col. Potter, is the all-time best-selling author in the 10-year history of Amazon.com. Following Rowling on the list of 25 and signaling the decline of Western Civilization: Spencer Johnson of Who Moved My Cheese? fame, romance novelist Nora Roberts and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. As for the author of Hamlet, King Lear, and a series of other plays, he finished 26th on the list, just behind Tom Clancy. Perhaps someday 500 years or so in the future, high school students will bemoan the archaic language and intricate plots of Red Storm Rising and Patriot Games.

Sadly, I appear to have finished somewhere about 1.6 million spots behind Rowling. (For $1.21 people, you can own a little part of me.)

And, it turns out Amazon has lots of fun things planned for the big 1-0, including making Harrison Ford and Jason Alexander schlpe packages to your door. Tell you what, buy a used copy of my book and I will come to your house and sign it, provided you live within 20-25 miles of the North Shore Chicago suburbs or have a layover at O'Hare (not applicable during rush hour). Heck, I'll even stay for dinner or at least a drink.

Hurry there are only nine used copies left!

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