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Fat Abe · 08-20-2022, 06:38 PM

Here's an example of an author (a golfer, no less) exploiting the Covid-19 crisis:

https://www.amazon.com/Moses-Predict...ustomerReviews

One review is funny, but the rest seem to have been written by friends of Kermit.

Now, writers are supposed to anticipate large scale disasters. Notwithstanding Dean Koontz's novel, The Eyes of Darkness, it appears that movies and video games (The Division) got the jump on books. We'll probably see some retrospective novels in the next three years. That's fine too, with Lawrence Block covering the story from the NYC viewpoint.

08-20-2022, 06:38 PM	#51
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,826 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Here's an example of an author (a golfer, no less) exploiting the Covid-19 crisis: https://www.amazon.com/Moses-Predict...ustomerReviews One review is funny, but the rest seem to have been written by friends of Kermit. Now, writers are supposed to anticipate large scale disasters. Notwithstanding Dean Koontz's novel, The Eyes of Darkness, it appears that movies and video games (The Division) got the jump on books. We'll probably see some retrospective novels in the next three years. That's fine too, with Lawrence Block covering the story from the NYC viewpoint.