Congratulations on the book. I do think it's necessary, if a bit awkward, to acknowledge the obvious fact you are in the pocket of Carvel and Pizza Hut.
We all know ice cream cake is delicious and a good motivator, but I guess they need whatever tiny market share they don't already have and have co-opted your literary endeavor to color the minds of people easily influenced by animal adjacent flights of fancy.
Similarly, pizza is also delicious and motivating. However, it lacks street cred. Linking it to murder makes it scarier but also more sexy and alluring. You have transformed pizza to one of the Greasers from the Outsiders. That crust stays gold.
As an added bonus, fans of true crime shows & podcasts (all 30 trillion of them) will now want more pizza based on the murder association.
The speed & ease with which you are sure to monetize this corporate connection will be life changing. When they reboot Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous with AI hologram Robin Leach, readers of this blog will you there and say "I knew him when...."
A very good reading of the situation! You have correctly surmised that my business model for this book was that one episode of 30 Rock where Jack produces a horror movie with Jenna. I am so confident in this strategy that I have preemptively written Phil Romano into Book Two, which will be brought to you by Walmart.
(Unless the pizza/ice-cream cake thing works out, in which case Book Two will be brought to you by Nothing Because I’m On My Private Island.)
Congratulations on the book. I do think it's necessary, if a bit awkward, to acknowledge the obvious fact you are in the pocket of Carvel and Pizza Hut.
We all know ice cream cake is delicious and a good motivator, but I guess they need whatever tiny market share they don't already have and have co-opted your literary endeavor to color the minds of people easily influenced by animal adjacent flights of fancy.
Similarly, pizza is also delicious and motivating. However, it lacks street cred. Linking it to murder makes it scarier but also more sexy and alluring. You have transformed pizza to one of the Greasers from the Outsiders. That crust stays gold.
As an added bonus, fans of true crime shows & podcasts (all 30 trillion of them) will now want more pizza based on the murder association.
The speed & ease with which you are sure to monetize this corporate connection will be life changing. When they reboot Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous with AI hologram Robin Leach, readers of this blog will you there and say "I knew him when...."
A very good reading of the situation! You have correctly surmised that my business model for this book was that one episode of 30 Rock where Jack produces a horror movie with Jenna. I am so confident in this strategy that I have preemptively written Phil Romano into Book Two, which will be brought to you by Walmart.
(Unless the pizza/ice-cream cake thing works out, in which case Book Two will be brought to you by Nothing Because I’m On My Private Island.)
Where does your coolness end
I used the last of it to design the pizza murder shirt unfortunately :(
Good to hear from you!!
Congrats! I look forward to reading it
Thank you! I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it.