New Writing

Hello {{first_name | Reader}},

I’ve just posted a new Low Visibility Ahead entry, “Mutated Beyond Recognition.”

“The book business has mutated beyond recognition since Netflix and Amazon have come on the scene. Bookstores are serving an increasingly geriatric and nostalgic clientele. Publishing has devolved into a handful of exploitative mega-corporations selling romantasy.…”

You can read the rest on my website at johnrember.com/blog/mutated-beyond-recognition.

I’m reading at The Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho this Wednesday, March 25, starting at 5:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For in-person attendance, registration is required here. The reading will also be livestreamed and the recording available afterward on The Community Library's Event Archive.

Since I no longer have the publicity department of Penguin Random House at my beck and call, I’m depending on word-of-mouth to sell my books. I have found that even the most hard-core Trumpists, vaccine conspiracists, and Ivermectin addicts concede that Journal of the Plague Years contains some solid thinking and now and then makes them rethink their positions. If you have any of these people in your family or book club, consider giving them the Journal as birthday or holiday gifts. They will thank you eventually.

Also, if you know anyone who might enjoy my occasional Low Visibility Ahead entries, please encourage them to sign up for this newsletter using this link.

Another also: After a small initial burst of Amazon reviews, no one has seen fit to add to them. If you have read part or all of Journal, I would be most grateful if you would write a Goodreads or Amazon review. My books tend to settle into the five-star or one-star categories, but either would be welcome, as any publicity is good publicity.

Thank you much,
John
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