**{Link deleted by TubaDiva, do not shill commercial products on this board! Don’t put links with popups on the board either. your humble TubaDiva] **
The information on the book is on the pop up, so don’t close it until you’ve had a chance to read it.
It’s a fair price, it’s a cool book, and it makes a lovely Christmas present. And if you buy it, I can tell my boss that our website is totally worth the money (we’re nonprofit, you see).
Come on. Look at the book already. Look at it and tell me how cool it is. Your sister would like to have this book. No, wait, your husband would. He’s all about death and cemeteries and stuff. And cool photography of cemeteries.
Okay, so I misspelled shameless. So freaking sue me. But, the book is still cool. Besides, the plug is still shameless and the book itself is shamless, or to be without sham. The book is neither shammy nor chamois.
Aww, shucks. I’ve been assisted in a big way by The Ike. Thankie much, kind sir. I do hope that you enjoy it, since you are going to buy it and all. Hint. Hint.
Okay, so here’s some really, really useless trivia you can stick in yer pipe and smoke: Elmwood isn’t the oldest cemetery in Memphis, but the oldest active cemetery in Memphis. There were two other cemeteries downtown (Winchester and Morris) that were “closed” and all of the bodies buried there were dug up and moved to Elmwood. This happened in the 1870’s. Can you imagine not having backhoes, not having refrigeration, hell, not having embalming (or modern embalming), and digging all those bodies up, while the temperature in Memphis during the summer gets up to 100 degrees in no time flat?
Gross.
But other than that, you should still buy the book. And we’re still nonprofit. And thanks for letting me slide, Uke.
Sheesh! Sounds like your missing statue is nothing more than a continuation of a centuries-old “help yourself” policy. Don’t think I’d want to live around there!
Yeah, well, folks steal stuff from cemeteries. They think it’s cute, I guess. We had a 100-year-old piece of stained glass broken last year at Halloween by some idiot who wanted to break into a mausoleum.
I’m letting this thread stay on the board to restate our policy:
If you have a commercial enterprise you wish to publicize/plug on the SDMB you can buy an ad. Doesn’t matter if it’s a nonprofit or not, a business or not, if you’re selling something you can’t sell it in message board postings. We consider such threads to be spamming the board and not only do we remove them we routinely remove the posting privileges of those that attempt to place them here.
Ukelele Ike hasn’t been a moderator with us for very long and doesn’t quite know all the ropes, it’s also unfortunate that this book is on a subject dear to his heart and so he misspoke.
Wait a second—I’ve plugged my own books shamelessly here, and so have other authors. Why did Sophie get dogpiled like this? I for one (as a graveyard fanatic) would like to at least know the NAME of her book so’s I can look it up.
Does this mean that when my next book comes out I can’t even MENTION it to my friends on the SDMB? I mean, I’m not going to get married or have any kids, I have to brag about SOMETHING.
Eh, Eve, you’re a “serious” writer, and Sophie’s book was basically, if I’m getting the gist of it right, a coffee table book.
Plus you don’t include links for popups.
Plus, most importantly, you don’t start threads just to say, shamelessly, “Hey, buy my book!” Starting a thread to say, “Woo-hoo, my new book is out!” is different from, “Hey, buy my book, and read the entire popup, isn’t it a cool book, wouldn’t you like to buy multiple copies for all your friends, c’mon, c’mon, BUY MY BOOK?”
We respect you for this. We know how much self-control it must take.
I think they’re looking for a little more separation from the Board and buying stuff–you only said your book’s out, find it at quality bookstores everywhere; the OP had a link to the place where people could buy the book.
“SERIOUS writer?” First time I’ve ever been called THAT . . . Only reason MY books aren’t “coffee-table books” is I can’t afford the photo rights . . . Besides, what is the difference, really, between saying, “Woo-hoo! My book is out!” and “Buy my book!” Semantics, really and I hope I’m not being given any special free rides . . .
I’m not looking to pick a fight—I never even contribute to the “why was so-and-so banned” or “why was my thread killed” threads . . . But I’d like to know if I’m going to be dogpiled if I mention the ONLY thing that’s important in my life. I’d also like to know what Sophie’s book is called, so I can look it up on Amazon!
In my opinion, there’s a difference between saying “I just wrote a book on subject X” vs. saying “Here is a link to where you can buy my book.” The “seriousness” of the book doesn’t make a difference. As far as I can remember, Eve, you never posted a link to a site where the book was up for sale.
Hey, you guys, I emailed Uke and asked him to lock this thread. What I did was against the rules and I didn’t think about it before I did it. It’s cool. I had a brain fart. In my defense, I will say that I didn’t think it was an issue because we’re nonprofit (meaning: we aren’t making money off the book, if you can believe that), but now I see that that is against the rules, and hey, I’m sorry. I won’t do it again.
Tuba, please just lock this up. It’ll make me feel lots better. And again, I’m an idiot and I’m sorry. Really. It shan’t happen again.
Seconded on “You da MAN!” If you’ve ever read the comic Bacchus, you may be familiar with a chap who devised a system for doing the same thing on Elvis’ grave. I ever get the chance to go back to Moscow, I’m takin’ that system with me for a little plot o’ land over by the Kremlin wall…
We know how much self-control it must take.