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As you (should) know, I am an enormous fan of Allan Weisbecker. Since first reading the remaindered copy of Cosmic Banditos (now reprinted for a second time) lent to me by a friend through the awesome power of In Search of Captain Zero and on to the strangely altered state we currently find him on over at his website and newsletter he never fails to either make me laugh or stop my breath. Or both.

And he’s got a new book, coming soon. Entitled Can’t you get along with anyone? a writer’s memoir it sounds rather like it will be the story of how he got himself in to the aforementioned strangely altered state. Part of it at least is the story of how he fell out with the American media establishment over the filming of Captain Zero….

Which leads us on to a whole new problem. By falling out with US media publicising the new book is going to be very hard. Publishing it at all is going to be very hard, in fact. So. In a very web 2.0 kind of way (or should we call it publishing 2.0?) he and his UK publishers are running a promotion challenge to get us to buy pre-release copies of the book and to promote it on their behalf.

Will word of mouth do enough? I surely hope so, ‘cos I’ve paid my �13 and bought my pre-release copy! If you buy yours, mention me when you order. I want to win that lettered hardback.