For basically my whole life, I have had this pathological inability to not say something that I think is funny. A thing being funny has always seemed, to me, to not just be sufficient justification for doing it but a sort of undeniable imperative. It is only by a Herculean act of willpower that I added an explanatory subtitle to
Your sense of humor and your distaste of marketing remind me of my dad. He had a similar way with words and a distaste for hucksters, especially of the Gospel. As a Christian book publisher, he once sent a book presenting a view other than premillenial dispensationalism to every name on the GARBC list of preachers called Up, Up and Away by a gentleman named Phillip Yerby, as I recall. Good memories.
I trust your book will do well. While the escatalogical follies of yore are died down somewhat, there remains a need for a serious treatment of the last book of God's Revelation to His church. Most particularly in these current days of disquiet.
“The medium is the message” would also cover marketing, so your approach makes a great deal of sense. It would feel off to try to shovel money to “the Zuck” for FB ads to promote a book with a godly message. I hope to read your book once it is published.
Your sense of humor and your distaste of marketing remind me of my dad. He had a similar way with words and a distaste for hucksters, especially of the Gospel. As a Christian book publisher, he once sent a book presenting a view other than premillenial dispensationalism to every name on the GARBC list of preachers called Up, Up and Away by a gentleman named Phillip Yerby, as I recall. Good memories.
I trust your book will do well. While the escatalogical follies of yore are died down somewhat, there remains a need for a serious treatment of the last book of God's Revelation to His church. Most particularly in these current days of disquiet.
“The medium is the message” would also cover marketing, so your approach makes a great deal of sense. It would feel off to try to shovel money to “the Zuck” for FB ads to promote a book with a godly message. I hope to read your book once it is published.