Pimping…

…myself, mainly.

Which is not something I’m comfortable doing. Oh, I have a monstrous ego, but I really am uncomfortable hawking myself for profit.

And so, to those of you who hit the Tip Jar or bought AD merchandise, many thanks. (I’ve got some new designs, by the way, and I’m open to suggestions for more).

Which brings me to my next subject. Down there at the bottom of my left sidebar, you’ll see an icon of a certain book.

Now, that book was published before I ever started a blog, when a good friend and fledgling publisher was generous enough to offer me a contract. We’ve sold a few here and there, and the book has been well-received in EMS circles, but sales certainly haven’t set the world on fire.

Let’s just say that the money deposited into Double-Wide Fund from book sales is only barely enough to buy me a pop-up camper.

Well, those books are soon to become orphans collector’s items. They’re soon to go out of print. When The Publisher first offered me a contract, he told me, “I don’t know how many of these we’ll sell, but if it gets you noticed by bigger outfits than mine, I’ll have accomplished my goal. We need more EMS books that aren’t the ‘look at me, I’m a hero’ variety.”

Well, the publisher achieved his goal. He (and this blog) got me noticed by a big publisher, and the contract I’ve signed means that the old books will disappear fairly soon. The new book will be a substantial reworking of the old one, to include a number of stories from this blog. Call it “AD’s Greatest Hits,” if you will.

However, over half the stories in the old book appear only there. They’ve never been posted on the blog, and many of them will not be included in the new book. So if you’d like to read some AD stories you’ve never seen before, I urge you to go buy a copy. Emergency Publishers has only a few hundred copies left, and any that don’t get sold will require me paying money out of the double wide fund.

And I’d rather have y’all reading them than me using them as birdcage liner, noamsayne?