Mind + Body Being Repaired, Available Again Shortly
Posted 9:08pm Sat Jan 24, 2009 by Aaron DunlapI (and quite a few reviewers) have found a few dropped words and miscellaneous grammatical errors in the text of Mind + Body, so I've made another revision and sent it off to the publisher. While that all turns around, the book will be unavailable to purchase. Never fear, it will be back in a week or so.
Merry ChristmaHolidayMass
Posted 11:42am Wed Dec 24, 2008 by Aaron Dunlap
It's Christmas Eve, there's snow outside (lots of it), and in that regard I am happy.
Wherever you are, snow or not, Merry Christmas.
If you'd like to give me a bit of a Christmas gift, you could write a small review of my book, Mind + Body, at Amazon by clicking this link.
If you've read the book, just give it a star rating and write a few words about whether you enjoyed it. You don't have to have ordered it from Amazon to write a review, you could have read it online or downloaded it.
Customer reviews on Amazon are quite important for selling, and they help me understand my audience.
If you don't want to do that, or you maybe have something not-so-positive to say about it, you could email me. I appreciate all kinds of feedback, as long as it's honest.
Thanks.
Mind + Body Officially Published, Official Site Live
Posted 8:11pm Sun Oct 19, 2008 by Aaron Dunlap
After something like a million years, that book I wrote is finally done and for sale.
You can find all pertinent information like links to purchase and to download the book for free at the book's new official homepage:
If you're one of the people who read Mind + Body as I was writing it, you may be interested to know that I completely re-wrote the first two chapters and the whole book has gone through an overall face-lift of corrected grammar and improved sentence flow.
Also, you people who read my book for free have essentially stolen from me, so if you'd like to restore balance to the universe you should probably buy 8 or 9 copies. It's in the Bible somewhere.
Either way, now is the time to bang on your friends and neighbors' doors to tell them to check it out.
Talking points for strangers might be that the book is a Bourne Identity for the digital age, including social engineering and technical espionage. Also, they can download and read the book for free.
Where Credit Is Due: Digg.com
Posted 8:10pm Sun Oct 19, 2008 by Aaron Dunlap
(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.
Mind + Body Visualized
Posted 6:13pm Sat Sep 06, 2008 by Aaron Dunlap
(click image for biggie)
The larger a word is, the more often it appears in the text.
The fact that "Amy" is the largest is no mystery, her being the most frequently appearing character and considering that the word "I" is filtered out.
More interesting to me is how frequent the words "just," "like," and "something" appear. This just reveals the, like, certain way that I make the teenage characters talk, or something.
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