# Big News From DMark! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888 "2014-01-15T17:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/61 "2014-01-22T17:27:39Z")
I just bought Fool Proof for my Kindle. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/62 "2014-01-22T20:05:39Z")
Really enjoyed the sample chapters! I’d love to read the rest of it - let us know if it’s ever available in a usable format… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/63 "2014-01-22T21:15:18Z")
But it already is in a usable format: you can download a kindle program for any kind of computer. I have kindle in my laptop, I have kindle in my desktop, I have kindle in my tablet, and while I don’t have kindle in my cellphone (teeny weeny screen, it’s an LG S3-II), I’ve seen people use kindle in cellphones the same model as mine. It’s free, just grab it from amazon. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/64 "2014-01-23T02:10:09Z")
Books are much easier to carry around in case I want to read something. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/65 "2014-01-23T07:57:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ha, thought I would get a chance at it this weekend, but it didn’t happen. Expect me to bump this thread in a few months maybe. 🙂 Thanks - and hope you find some nice, quiet down time to read! > [@AskNott](#): > > I just bought Fool Proof for my Kindle. Thank you - hope you like it and looking forward to any comments. > [@Nava](#): > > It’s free, just grab it from amazon. And a special thanks to **Nava** who has read the book and posted a great review on Amazon. However, to anyone who has not read the book, there is one teeny-tiny section about someone who speaks Catalan - and **Nava** wasted no time in letting me know I should give this bit of info some additional thought - which I will. But I had to laugh - where else but on the SDMB would anybody have even heard of the Catalan language, let alone speak it?! Talk about being caught with your pants down… I promise, **Nava** , to rethink that paragraph on any future re-write/update! And a very sincere thank you for pointing it out. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/66 "2014-01-23T12:49:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Books are much easier to carry around in case I want to read something. Easier than carrying a [Kindle](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007HCCNJU/ref=sa_menu_kdptq)? The Kindle is 6.5" x 4.5" x 0.34", weighs about 6 ounces and holds 1000 books. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/67 "2014-01-25T07:47:10Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Books are much easier to carry around in case I want to read something. I have looked into having a paperback book for sale as well. However, the price would need to be somewhere between $17-20 just to pretty much break even. That seems to be a fairly hefty price for a paperback and I am not sure even my closest friends are going to be leaping at that! > [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Easier than carrying a [Kindle](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007HCCNJU/ref=sa_menu_kdptq)? The Kindle is 6.5" x 4.5" x 0.34", weighs about 6 ounces and holds 1000 books. I would agree, but then again, I only have a Kindle because my brother gave me his (he just bought an iPad), so I fully understand people who might not own one. However, as has been mentioned on this thread, you can download a FREE app that can let you read Kindle books on your laptop or iPad or Android and most other devices. And considering the Kindle book is $2.99 vs a paperback cost of $17-20 - well, I think I know what most people would choose. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/68 "2014-01-29T03:16:17Z")
@DMark Thank you for a great book! I enjoyed the book very much and look forward to Fools Gold and ensuing high jinks with Mike’s nephew. Now go write more!!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/69 "2014-01-29T22:52:03Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > @DMark Thank you for a great book! I enjoyed the book very much and look forward to Fools Gold and ensuing high jinks with Mike’s nephew. > Now go write more!!!😃 So glad you liked it - and thanks for the compliment! ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/70 "2014-02-03T16:27:30Z")
DMark, I don’t know if you watched the Superbowl, but you were eerily prescient: (Fool Proof spoilers follow) One superbowl ad featured a multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful, and predictably, the usual suspects are up in arms about how and American anthem should only be performed in English. I found it startlingly similar to the boys’s version of the Star Spangled Banner, and the reaction it provoked. Life imitating art! Nice job. ---
**Author:** ![twopiecesofeight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@twopiecesofeight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twopiecesofeight)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/71 "2014-02-03T17:19:01Z")
Purchased! Finished Chapter One. I like the fast paced writing and humor. The line that broke me: “OK, listen up. I need you to sign up a boy band.” ---
**Author:** ![Vimp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vimp/32/4186_2.png) [@Vimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vimp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/72 "2014-02-03T17:24:42Z")
Another purchaser checking in. I can hardly wait to start reading. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/73 "2014-02-03T17:28:43Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > DMark, I don’t know if you watched the Superbowl, but you were eerily prescient: (Fool Proof spoilers follow) > > One superbowl ad featured a multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful, and predictably, the usual suspects are up in arms about how and American anthem should only be performed in English. I found it startlingly similar to the boys’s version of the Star Spangled Banner, and the reaction it provoked. Life imitating art! Nice job. Wow! No, I did not see that ad (didn’t watch the Super Bowl) but just Googled it, [watched and listened, and then read about the hate.](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/02/coca-colas-its-beautiful-super-bowl-ad-brings-out-some-ugly-americans/) Whodathunk that I would have hit that nail so perfectly on the head!? I don’t know if I should be proud to have seen this coming, or depressed to know exactly what would happen. At least in Fool Proof, I think I gave a satisfactory resolution to the issue - we’ll see what happens in real life. Thanks for letting me know! Kind of freaky coincidence, but sort of makes my novel all that more realistic! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/74 "2014-02-15T04:33:49Z")
Do you like snark? Of course you do, you are a Doper. Do you like hyperbole? Do you like constant action and a fast moving story that you can’t put down? Well, if so…BUY THIS BOOK!!! But, if you do buy the book, don’t read the preview of Fool’s Gold lest you become like me and want to start nagging DMark to stop messing around on the web and go back to finishing the second book. Honestly, this book is so out of my normal genre that I was doubtful. I’m so happy that I got the chance to read it. Its a fun book and I’ll be one of the first to order the deadtree edition when its released. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/75 "2014-02-17T17:15:29Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Do you like snark? Of course you do, you are a Doper. > Do you like hyperbole? > Do you like constant action and a fast moving story that you can’t put down? > > Well, if so…BUY THIS BOOK!!! > > But, if you do buy the book, don’t read the preview of Fool’s Gold lest you become like me and want to start nagging DMark to stop messing around on the web and go back to finishing the second book. > > Honestly, this book is so out of my normal genre that I was doubtful. I’m so happy that I got the chance to read it. Its a fun book and I’ll be one of the first to order the deadtree edition when its released. Thanks for the comments, **flatlined**! You will be happy to know I am busy working on Fool’s Gold and up to Chapter 18 - so hopefully you won’t have to wait all that long! Again - thanks for the comments and thanks to everyone else who has sent me a PM and given me their support and great feedback! Greatly appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Enn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dave_enn/32/426_2.png) [@Dave\_Enn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Enn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/76 "2014-02-18T07:35:41Z")
Just bought it on Kindle; looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/77 "2014-02-18T17:42:09Z")
I finally finished the book I was already reading, and am now about halfway through _Fool Proof_: yay, **DMark**!! Really, really well done and very entertaining. So far, anyway. 😉 I always look forward to reading more, and I have to be careful at night because I’ll stay up longer than I should. I can’t wait to finish it, at which time I expect that I will rave further here and also post a glowing review on Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/78 "2014-02-21T07:39:49Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I finally finished the book I was already reading, and am now about halfway through _Fool Proof_: yay, **DMark**!! Really, really well done and very entertaining. So far, anyway. 😉 I always look forward to reading more, and I have to be careful at night because I’ll stay up longer than I should. I can’t wait to finish it, at which time I expect that I will rave further here and also post a glowing review on Amazon. Thanks for the great comments on what you have read so far! Hope you continue to like it and post your comments after you finish! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/79 "2014-02-22T02:53:23Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Thanks for the comments, **flatlined**! > > You will be happy to know I am busy working on Fool’s Gold and up to Chapter 18 - so hopefully you won’t have to wait all that long! > > Again - thanks for the comments and thanks to everyone else who has sent me a PM and given me their support and great feedback! Greatly appreciated! **WriterDude** , get back to work. I want to see if your poor overworked assistants survive another round. > [@Misnomer](#): > > I finally finished the book I was already reading, and am now about halfway through _Fool Proof_: yay, **DMark**!! Really, really well done and very entertaining. So far, anyway. 😉 I always look forward to reading more, and I have to be careful at night because I’ll stay up longer than I should. I can’t wait to finish it, at which time I expect that I will rave further here and also post a glowing review on Amazon. That’s how the book took me. I like to read in bed and I was all “OK, its time to shut down, so I’ll just finish this page…oh, wait, I need to finish the paragraph…oh wait, I’ll just finish the chapter.” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888/80 "2014-02-28T17:25:35Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > That’s how the book took me. I like to read in bed and I was all “OK, its time to shut down, so I’ll just finish this page…oh, wait, I need to finish the paragraph…oh wait, I’ll just finish the chapter.” Yes, whenever people take me to bed with them, they just don’t want to stop. I might use that as a blurb for the book. Thanks for the comments! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-news-from-dmark/678888.md?page=3)