October 5th, 2009 / 1:34 pm
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Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit trailer

Are you ready for something sublime? Ol’ boy Joe Young made a heartwrenching video to promote his book, Easter Rabbit (which I’m putting it out with Publishing Genius in December).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eIpZii_PZo

Oddly beautiful, no? It’s amazing how much how little can do. And it seems like there have been a lot of special offers here at HTMLGIANT lately. See below for a couple more.

1. The next five people to pre-order Easter Rabbit will receive a free copy of A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons. E’rbody already knows how great that book is. Many people cried when they read it. **UPDATE** This is now closed. **END UPDATE**

2. Easter Rabbit is 100 pages long, but there are only about 3,000 words in the entire thing. Here’s the No Risk Offer: if you buy the book and manage to read it through in one sitting, you can have your money back. You just have to write 50 words (which may be published) saying what the reading experience was like. I don’t think many people will be able to do this. More info here.

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13 Comments

  1. October 6th, 2009 / 2:48 am alec niedenthal—

      gorgeous. this is more affecting to me than the where the wild things are trailer.

  2. October 5th, 2009 / 10:48 pm alec niedenthal—

      gorgeous. this is more affecting to me than the where the wild things are trailer.

  3. October 6th, 2009 / 12:05 pm mike young—

      this book is terrific. i have a mysterious pdf copy of it and everyone needs to know that joseph young does things with words that polevaulters do with tiny points of sharpened metal

  4. October 6th, 2009 / 8:05 am mike young—

      this book is terrific. i have a mysterious pdf copy of it and everyone needs to know that joseph young does things with words that polevaulters do with tiny points of sharpened metal

  5. October 6th, 2009 / 12:48 pm david erlewine—

      (seconded)

      i’m working on a write-up for my blog. staggering work, really. hard to do a review, almost, not sure how to capture it right now, like rocky chasing that chicken.

      oh and i saw lit agent nathan bransford tweet last night that as of dec 1 bloggers have to disclose in reviews when they’ve received a “free product”. joe y charged me $60 for the pdf, which i’m assuming he charged you, mike…

  6. October 6th, 2009 / 8:48 am david erlewine—

      (seconded)

      i’m working on a write-up for my blog. staggering work, really. hard to do a review, almost, not sure how to capture it right now, like rocky chasing that chicken.

      oh and i saw lit agent nathan bransford tweet last night that as of dec 1 bloggers have to disclose in reviews when they’ve received a “free product”. joe y charged me $60 for the pdf, which i’m assuming he charged you, mike…

  7. October 6th, 2009 / 1:34 pm Joseph Young—

      thanks you guys. appreciated.

  8. October 6th, 2009 / 9:34 am Joseph Young—

      thanks you guys. appreciated.

  9. October 6th, 2009 / 1:39 pm davidpeak—

      have to disclose when they receive free product? who’s enforcing this?

  10. October 6th, 2009 / 9:39 am davidpeak—

      have to disclose when they receive free product? who’s enforcing this?

  11. October 6th, 2009 / 11:54 am davidpeak—

      nevermind, bransford wasn’t kidding around. From Publisher’s Lunch:

      The Federal Trade Commission officially revised its “guides” which govern endorsements and testimonials, aimed squarely at the universe of online and word-of-mouth recommendations. The new rules have all the clarity you would expect from an 81-page government document, and in many instances they are either opaque, noxious or just ridiculous (the FTC wants disclosure within tweets as well).

  12. October 6th, 2009 / 3:54 pm davidpeak—

      nevermind, bransford wasn’t kidding around. From Publisher’s Lunch:

      The Federal Trade Commission officially revised its “guides” which govern endorsements and testimonials, aimed squarely at the universe of online and word-of-mouth recommendations. The new rules have all the clarity you would expect from an 81-page government document, and in many instances they are either opaque, noxious or just ridiculous (the FTC wants disclosure within tweets as well).

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