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Has anyone read the story called [I think!] "The Shameless Ebook Writer's Disappearance"? It dealt with aliens who wish to kidnap a "Real Author"
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Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention, Dr Drib. I take it you were as shocked as I was when you realised how much the subject matter resembled certain passages in my much-lauded, much-loved novel, Being Light. Perhaps I ought to send a petition about it
to the British Prime Minister. If I decide to do so, I hope I may call on you for support.
For those readers who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the blurb for Being Light:
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Roy Travers is swept away by a freak gust of wind while trying to install a bouncy castle in Brockwell Park, south London. Sheila, his wife, can’t understand why he hasn’t found his way back home. She begins to suspect that Roy has been abducted by aliens and enlists the help of Mrs Fitzgerald’s Bureau of Investigation to find him.
Sheila travels to Kent with Alison, a private detective. Together they build a missing persons advertisement out of pebbles on a beach, hoping it will be seen by the aliens who have taken Roy. But Roy was not taken by aliens. The truth is far stranger.
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Yes! Exactly! Abducted by aliens! Now you see what I'm talking about - kind of similar, isn't it?
Being Light had some great reviews in the UK press:
'A screwball comedy that really works.'
The Independent
'Imagine a satire on Cool Britannia made by the Coen Brothers… very funny.'
Times Literary Supplement
Being Light is £1.99 or $2.99 direct from
TygerBooks in mobi or epub format (or lrf or prc on request), $2.99 from
Amazon, $2.99 from
Mobipocket.
DRM free everywhere except Mobipocket, which doesn't allow it.
I have no idea where one would go to purchase 'The Shameless ebook Writer's Disappearance'. The book itself seems to be as elusive as these so-called 'ebook writers' you keep talking about.