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Old 12-07-2011, 02:11 PM   #1
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I don't know what this has to do with anything related to Biblical Criticism but I just wanted to let you know that I accidentally stumbled into Reddit because I did a Google search for my name and saw someone had posted a comment there. I responded to the post and - unbelievably - I became the 17th most popular story at the site. The point here is that the site has been mostly down all day. It is impossible to post there. But I have never seen this kind of traffic at my blog. Over a thousand individual visits redirected from that story and over seventeen hundred page views. My God, that's incredible for me.

Of course some guy there tried to claim that the only reason my book got published was that the editor wanted to get into my pants.

As if.

No one has wanted to get down my pants for some time. My stomach's in the way for starters.

Anyway thought I would let anyone know - Roger etc. If you want to promote something the traffic is utterly incredible

UPDATE - since even posting the this information (10 minutes ago) I've had like 30 referrals.
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What did you post Steph that achieved such enthusiastic response
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Old 12-07-2011, 03:22 PM   #3
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As I said I responded to some questions that someone had posted about my book (which I never promote here at this board). The next thing I know - I'm closing on 2000 page views for one day which is quite unusual for my blog.
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Of course some guy there tried to claim that the only reason my book got published was that the editor wanted to get into my pants.
If female editor and passably attractive, well, why not

I wish I could have stirred up such enthusiasm about my book. Did you first self-publish or were you able to sell it as a MS
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Managed to get it picked up by a publisher in London but of course there were problems. The publisher handles mostly 'New Age' books and has published a number of titles which people have used against me. The truth is that it's a lost cause with publishing a book. You have to be someone to sell a book. It's not about ideas really. Even with celebrity scholars like Ehrman. Ehrman did a lot of amazing work early in his career but most of the stuff he publishes now are clearly aimed at 'his audience.' You know. The publisher has conducted 'studies' of who is reading his stuff and he then develops a book to sell to them.

It is hard to avoid that approach. We do it unconsciously with our spouses, kids, peers. Whatever works. Like the Woody Allen film says.

If you have some burning desire to turn things upside down. If you realize everything you've ever written is wrong. The system has invested so much in you it's hard to get off the train.
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True with the advent of the PC. Now 25 times as many writers are producing 25 times as much material so that it's now 625 times as difficult to peddle your works

Anyhow that's my excuse
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I finally dropped out of the front page of Reddit. As it turns out I just happened to luck out that they had an outage where no one could post anything to the site for the whole day and as a result I got a lot of hits. It has started to drop off now that the story is ranked 78th. Still 2,500 hits in a day is pretty incredible.
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I wasn't able to get in last night. I've tried a link to the Amazon page for the Eusebius book; no idea if anything is happening. I'll try one to a post on my blog about Ulansey's book on Mithras -- at least I'll get some idea of what is happening.
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Some graphic illustrations of the impact of the article over the last few days:



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