Well, that's one way to sell your book...

[annathepiper]

nihilistic_kid fights real, real dirty. He's holding his own LJ hostage, posting some of the most horrendous @descriptions out of MU*-dom that I have ever seen (gleaned from a collection kept by welcomerain), and threatening to do so every four hours until the last copy of his novel Move Under Ground is sold on Amazon.com.

If you value your sanity, folks, don't go look at his journal's most few recent posts. I'm tellin' ya, you'll have to wash your eyes out with Comet. We're talking mind-melting, consciousness-destroying @descs here. To label these @descs as "not worksafe" would imply that there is some other location where perusing them might not be hazardous to your precious, precious grasp of the properly written word. These @descs lead my brain to begin to try to ponder who on earth could find the creatures depicted therein attractive, and it cannot. In its own self-defense, my cognitive center throws up a little "NOPE!" signal, digs in its figurative heels, and refuses to go there.

H.P. Lovecraft wrote very eloquently about horrors that cannot be named. He was wrong. In these @descs, the authors go to great lengths to demonstrate that they can in fact put words to some of the most godawful entities that have ever walked the Internet. And badly spelled, badly punctuated words at that. Think of the most godawful piece of fan fiction you have ever encountered, and I can pretty much guarantee you it doesn't compare (unless it's this piece of Michael/KITT Knight Rider slash*, in which case, yeah, it's about even).

On the other hand, you might also consider buying his book. 'Cause solarbird says he's a good writer an' stuff, and I plan to read our copy of Move Under Ground (we've already got one) over the holidays, along with jesshartley's and elbom's books as well.

But whatever you do, don't look here or here or here. I tell y'all this because I love you.

* This link was ALSO gakked from nihilistic_kid's journal, back in December 2003. Told you he fights dirty!

Comments

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

nice bit of reverse psychology... I went and looked because... I felt compelled by some strange and mysterious force... gak... unfortunately (or fortunately) for me, I has no money (as usual) so I guess I will be left to wonder...

[annathepiper]

Reverse psychology, hell. I have looked into the gibbering face of madness and am striving to spare you the horror, foolish mortal!

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Reverse psychology, hell. I have looked into the gibbering face of madness and am striving to spare you the horror, foolish mortal!

What? I didn't see you looking at me! ::gibber gibber, blah blah, poot::