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Terrible Tommy Terhune
The writer Lawrence Block has had an illustrious career. Now he is embracing the world of social media on the internet. Larry blogs. Larry posts amusing updates on Facebook. I often chuckle when I read his posts.
Recently he has been publishing a number of his early works as eBooks. Today he posted on Facebook that he has 20 books now self-published as eBooks and that 19 of them are doing well. But the 20th book, “Terrible Tommy Terhune” had not sold a single download yet. Block is a savvy user of social media. As soon as he posted about it he piqued some interest and people began clicking on the Amazon link. A Kindle download is only 99 cents for this title. It began to sell.
Do you play tennis? Here’s part of Block’s Amazon note about this title:
““Terrible Tommy Terhune” came about because Otto Penzler wanted a tennis story for an anthology he was preparing. I thought about it, and found myself drawn to one of the sport’s brightest lights, blessed with talent and cursed with an ungovernable temper. I imagined what steps he might take to cope with it, and what might happen if one of them were actually to work.”
“Many years ago, a golfer famous for the number of clubs he’d broken over his knee bore the soubriquet of “Terrible Tommy Bolt.” With a little added alliteration, that gave me a name for my protagonist and a title for my story. Otto expressed his enthusiasm, and I slated the story for inclusion in my omnibus collection, Enough Rope, knowing Otto would have plenty of time to publish it first in his anthology.”
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