Katherine: … Tess, you
know, you don’t get anywhere in this world by waiting for what you want to come
to you. You make it happen…
—Working girl, 1988, Mike Nichols.
LET ME TELL YA, dead writers1 make lots of
shekels.
On the downside, they can’t enjoy the royalties,
though it always comes out of nowhere an idle nephew that Lady Fortune has
visited, who, after the sad event, will spend the rest of his blessed life in
Honolulu sunbathing, next to the most beautiful woman possible (or a bunch of
them), and toasting caipirinhas to his brilliant and prolific dead uncle: Oh
yeahhh, life is good!
Neither has Lady Fortune visited me (She did several
times for the truly necessary), nor I am under the Earth (I think I’ll be on
the Earth for a while), so I’ve decided to sell my books through this wonderful
engine, called Internet, and this amazing platform, called Amazon. Hey, I wanna
go to Honolulu
Let me feel sorry for those writers who committed
suicide before this wonderful engine came out. Game over, folks! Likewise, I
got to wondering how many masterpieces have been lost on some dark drawers.
Fortunately, the Internet is cutting off all the restrictions, even those who
come from some conservative lobbies. Perhaps the Internet is the invisible hand2 that Adam Smith talked about in “The Wealth of Nations.” If you want to
sell a product, you go to the free-market and sell it. Period.
Who I am? What am I doing? Where am I going? These are
simple but not less deep questions which pop up in our mind sooner or later
along the journey of our life. Perhaps it would be far more mouthwatering to make
up that I traveled to a mystical retreat and, as a result, I wrote this
inspirational book. Yet, for better or worse, I owe myself to the Truth. It all
began in Miami Beach
I say Who, What, and Where! is a fresh, witty, and
inspirational novel about the courage to be yourself freely, in spite of inner
and outer conditionings. This funny and sometimes emotional story, as well as
satirical portrait, allows us to reflect on the challenges of changing a career
over a lifetime and starting an art, and to establish the hierarchy of values
such as freedom, happiness, love, and success, being aware of the traps we can
fall into in the pursuit of them. And ultimately it encourages us to be in
charge of our own life, the sooner the better.
So if you have a Kindle, Ipad, Iphone, Ipod Touch,
Blackberry, PC, Mac, Android-based devices, or Cloud reader3,
you can get a copy of I say Who, What, and Where! now
at Amazon, U.S. Kindle Store—also available in U.K. Kindle Store and DE Kindle Store! Hope
you enjoy the book, and don’t forget to tell me what you think about!
My Dear Readers, I have a hunch that this is going to
be fun!
1Death is a powerful variable which activates
the exponential growth law. For a good example, watch the movie “ World’s
Greatest Dad,” directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, 2009.
2Metaphor coined by the father
of capitalism, the economist Adam Smith, as an invisible power that guides the
free-market by the conjunction of self-interest, competition, and supply and
demand.
