{"id":9960,"date":"2011-07-22T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2011-07-22T08:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:06:43","slug":"penmonkey-incitement-t-shirt-unlocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/22\/penmonkey-incitement-t-shirt-unlocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Penmonkey Incitement: T-Shirt, Unlocked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And, bam.<\/p>\n

The CERTIFIED PENMONKEY t-shirt is unlocked now that we’ve reached the “100” mark for the PENMONKEY REEDUC… er, INCITEMENT PROGRAM.<\/p>\n

(We’re now at a total of 430 sold.)<\/p>\n

What that means is, this<\/em> t-shirt —<\/p>\n

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— will be sent to one lucky COAFPM procurer.<\/p>\n

That PENMONKEY will be —<\/p>\n

*is delivered an envelope by a whirring Doom-Bot*<\/p>\n

Holly West!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Woo! *confetti, applause, buzzsaws*<\/p>\n

And, because we hit the 100 mark, that also means: postcard.<\/em><\/p>\n

That postcard goes to —<\/p>\n

*drum roll using the skulls of my foes as drums, Ewok-style*<\/p>\n

Lynda Kachurek!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If the both of you could e-mail me to confirm your mailing addresses, that would be super-sweet.<\/p>\n

Remember: at certain “incitement procurement targets,” awesome things (like cybernetic Dobermans) are released. If you need a reminder, the releases go according to this handy-dandy chart:<\/p>\n

For every 50 sales, a postcard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For every 100 sales, a t-shirt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For every 200 sales, a copy-edit of your work (5000 words or 50 script pages).<\/strong><\/p>\n

For every 500 sales, a brand new Kindle.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, please note that if you haven’t already done so, you need to send me proof of your purchase to terribleminds [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong>, so the Doom-Bots know to count you in subsequent incitement draws.<\/p>\n

Though, if you bought COAFPM <\/strong>as PDF, you do not<\/em> need to send it to me. I’ve got it covered.<\/p>\n

Other Updatery-Doo<\/h3>\n

If you’re so inclined to know how all the e-books are doing, stick around.<\/p>\n

COAFPM <\/strong>(now with 12 great reviews at Amazon, and always seeking more<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) is doing very well. That $4.99 price point is a strong one. It allows me to see some bill-paying money come in without necessitating epic sales numbers — further, it allows me to do cool contests like the incitement program.<\/p>\n

You can read a nice review of COAFPM here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>actually has the opposite going for it — I’ve already sold 350 copies in four days (compare that to the 430 sold for COAFPM over two months), but of course at $0.99 you only get 30% opposed to the 70% with slightly higher prices. But that’s okay. This book is meant to whet people’s appetites and force them to grow addicted to my “Chimp-on-PCP” style of writing and further increase in them a desire to don red robes and drink my hypnotic Flavor-Aid. (Remember, everybody: Reverend Jim Jones did not<\/em> use Kool-Aid. Is it sick that I envision a wife trying to force feed her husband a cup of cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and he’s like “No — no!” and then the Kool-Aid Man comes cannonballing through the tent-flap and he’s all like “OH YEAAAAHH”…?)<\/p>\n

Seems like self-published authors are best served by a diversity of product and price point.<\/p>\n

I might just be making that up, though. Don’t quote me on it. You do what you like.<\/p>\n

IRREGULAR CREATURES<\/strong>, my short story collection, is continuing its “slow and steady wins the race” approach. Getting near 750 sales, so I’m pretty happy about that. I’m even happier about the incredible reviews over at Amazon (38 of ’em so far, all surprisingly kind<\/strong><\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

You can find a nice review of IC over at JD Rhodes’ blog<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I think that’s all, folks.<\/p>\n

If you got questions, comments, complaints, prayer requests, or wedding proposals, now’s the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And, bam. The CERTIFIED PENMONKEY t-shirt is unlocked now that we’ve reached the “100” mark for the PENMONKEY REEDUC… er, INCITEMENT PROGRAM. (We’re now at a total of 430 sold.) What that means is, it’s time to release both a t-shirt and a postcard into the wild. Here goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-9960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-chuckwendig","8":"tag-terribleminds","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2AE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9967,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/9967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}