Like many other people, we have long dreamed of writing long, multi-volume, lovingly crafted, ridiculously popular yet intellectually deep sagas that would give renewed life to the publishing industry, work to our accountants (we’d have to get accountants!), and three career-launching blockbusters to a new generation of teenage actors.
But that’s so 2009. So we instead write short, trashy novellas of undefined genre and no expectations, and we sell them online for two bucks. Yes! For just two nominal units of the world’s still struggling reserve currency, you get a full story with all the shameless self-indulgence of a fantasy best seller, but asking for a much smaller investment of your money and time. Plus, you get the statistical near-guarantee that you will be able to introduce your fake Facebook friends and cultlike Twitter followers to something they haven’t heard of. You can’t put a price on that kind of edgy cultural hipness! (we are hoping $2 sounds good, though).