Rant of the Day
Some of you may wonder, why on Earth is Zen publishing the link to a scorching review of his book? Why would he want to show something on his blog, to his nearly 500 followers, that makes him look so darn bad?
For one, I’m not totally biased that I’m only going to post the glowing 4- and 5-star reviews. Plus, as we have seen with books like 50 Shades of Grey, the negative reviews are usually far more entertaining. In my case, there’s just something about a reviewer who feels a need to (1) point out that I published a book while he hasn’t and (2) defend the fact that he is about to utterly rip and destroy my novel by prefacing something on the order of, “See, look, I’ve given good reviews before…” that made the opus very interesting, even for yours truly.
Are you not entertained by my nonsense?
Anyway, I had a few small snafus in the book. I wrote viola instead of voila. I wrote desert, rather than dessert. I described a TV as being caddy cornered, rather than catty cornered. My bad. I cursed my editor friends, fixed the errors, and republished to Amazon. That’s the beauty of self-publishing. And your worst case is you wasted $0.99; think about all those oh-so-perfectly edited books that you paid $19.99 for only to be utterly pissed when they sucked (e.g. The Secret.)
More importantly and consistent with the view of other top Amazon Reviewers, I think the ultimate message of the story is clear: the Federal Reserve’s out-of-control printing is going to positively, absolutely, 100%, lead to runaway inflation.
In 5-10 years, they aren’t going to say, “Zen meant to write Voila!” They are going to say, “Holy fucking shit, how did no one see this coming?” And Flexon Vale will be there. Ron Paul’s work will be there. Peter Schiff’s work will be there. And there are others.
I’m not trying to compare myself to those men but there are many of us who believe there is an important message that needs to be told. Flexon Vale isn’t about a writing career. It’s about conveying an important message to this country: if we don’t change course, nobody is going to like the result. Voila!
