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July 26, 2016

In the Navy!

I had an unexplained bump in the sales of a seven-year-old book, and on checking I discovered that the U.S. Navy had bought 1555 copies of my novel This Is Not a Game.  To which I had a number of responses.

  1. Whoa, this is awesome!

  2. What’s the heck is wrong with the other services?

I’d kind of like to know what the Navy is doing with my novel— I mean, would it help if I came and delivered a talk about it or something, because I’d totally be down with that— but on the other hand, it’s just about enough to know that I have somehow, in some strange way, served my country,

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