27-12-2015, 12:47 AM
I think you'll see more of this in the future as more and more people join social media, go online and get smart phones, iPhones and the like for quick communication.
I sent an SMS to a friend in Melbourne (an Australian cinematographer with a lot of industry buddies) when the review first went online - "Di Eugenio's big DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD review up now on CTKA." He wrote me back within the hour noting "Cheers, will look at it tonight". He has a handful of friends who are also following the assassination and I'm sure he would have told them about the review on the same day. This is how things go viral these days.
Readings Bookshop in Carlton (one of the remaining top quality bookshops down here following a wave of closures a few years back) had four copies of the book in stock, and my friend bought one of them, so word is getting around. DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD is now #955 out of all books on Amazon as I type, and has received a wave of five-star reviews in the past few days. This tells me it's broken out of the typical JFK assassination volume ghetto and is being recognised more widely as a book worthy of attention. I expect to see more five-star reviews, and the inevitable token hit piece rebuttals from idiots who haven't read the book, in the near future.
I sent an SMS to a friend in Melbourne (an Australian cinematographer with a lot of industry buddies) when the review first went online - "Di Eugenio's big DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD review up now on CTKA." He wrote me back within the hour noting "Cheers, will look at it tonight". He has a handful of friends who are also following the assassination and I'm sure he would have told them about the review on the same day. This is how things go viral these days.
Readings Bookshop in Carlton (one of the remaining top quality bookshops down here following a wave of closures a few years back) had four copies of the book in stock, and my friend bought one of them, so word is getting around. DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD is now #955 out of all books on Amazon as I type, and has received a wave of five-star reviews in the past few days. This tells me it's broken out of the typical JFK assassination volume ghetto and is being recognised more widely as a book worthy of attention. I expect to see more five-star reviews, and the inevitable token hit piece rebuttals from idiots who haven't read the book, in the near future.