By: Caleb J Ross

Caleb J Ross — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:41:00 +0000

Thank you! You make a man blush, Mr. Holt. I truly appreciate the kind words.

By: justin

justin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:37:16 +0000

Promotion is hard, but I honestly think you’ve done a helluva job with Charactered Pieces. Between the personalization/pictures included with the first bunch of copies of the book, to the Blog Orgy Tour, to the discussion groups, you’ve enhanced the experience of the book tenfold so that it’s a lot more than just words on a page. There’s a real town hall meeting feel to it, if that makes any sense, sort of the way I remember The Cult in its infancy. As dynamic of a personality as the man has, it’s hard for me to imagine Chuck Palahniuk hawking the majority of his books and finding major success at it without Fight Club being made into a movie at the very beginning of his published career. That’s the Catch-22, of course; for everyone who doesn’t have Oprah, the New York Times, or Hollywood behind them, it’s a hard go at things. Like every other aspect of American life these days, the big-boys dominate everything. But speaking for someone who hates everything that has to do with commercials/advertising, I have enjoyed every aspect of the ride so far with Charactered Pieces, and am also impressed with how much of yourself you’ve dedicated into promoting the overall community feel of writing. If ever literature will be successful in creating an “indie” feel the way small labels have in music, it’s people such as yourself who will be at the forefront of it.

As for your writing talent, that speaks for itself. Just keep on doing what you’re doing and sooner than later people will have to take notice, and when they do, they’ll be damn proud they did.

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