random book sighting in japan

I was quite amused by this, in a weird kinda way.

A few days ago, some groovy cat in Japan spotted my book in a bookshop in some town I’d never heard of before.

And he went and took this picture of Page Sixty Four. Why Page Sixty Four? I have no idea. I guess that’s what intrigued me.

[I saved the photo right then, I went back to try to find the link a few days later but couldn’t find it, sorry…]

Some random dude in a Japanese bookstore. Some random cartoonist in West Texas, with an equally random book serving as asocial object in a now hyper-connected world.

I told a fellow author the other day, “If your book isn’t a social object, your book isn’t selling. End of story.”

He scratched his head for a minute, so then I filled him in all about “Baked-In Sociality.” He got it, then.

And the Internet makes all this far more apparent than it ever was before, of course.

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