Where Credit Is Due: Digg.com

(Thus begins a series where I point out the easter egg-like hidden references in Mind + Body to people or things that either inspired me or somehow made the book possible.)

I try to make it no secret that I never could have written Mind + Body, or anything longer than two pages double-spaced, if it weren't for the enormous success of my 9v USB charger kit thing. I made enough money from it and the company that I could take enough time off of real work and focus entirely on that. When the orders calmed down, I found myself with enough free time that I could actually hunker down and write the book I've been wanting to since I was twelve.

I can't take any credit for the success of the charger kits. I did very little to market them, they kind of took on a life of their own through word of mouth, blogs, social networking sites, and a few major magazines.

The first big break, the one that started it all, was on Digg.com.

It was from Digg that I got my first order, and from there it was discovered and featured on BoingBoing, where it was discovered and featured in Popular Science magazine. Digg was the first pebble in the pond that rippled out and changed my life forever, so I thought it only fair to give them a nod in the novel.

On page 184:

An hour later I was back in my hotel room, constantly checking my email and reading the news headlines at Digg.com.