Stuck in the middle with you
From MSN Live Search:
In case you haven't been keeping up with the Rapture Ready! news page or Facebook group, here are some highlights from the last few weeks:
Reviews in Publisher's Weekly, SoMA Review and Discerning Reader (a conservative Christian site, so this is as close to a rave as I could possibly get).
Interviews in The Forward and Metromix.
A thoughtful discussion and analysis in Slate (that, for what it's worth, I don't entirely agree with).
Also, there are now six excerpts available online at various sites, with more to come. Pretty soon the entire thing will be free on the Internet, just like music.
Perhaps due to all this buzz, my Amazon rank briefly rose to about 850 and has now settled down to 3,000-something.
What can you do to help continue this saturation coverage, I hear you ask? Well, if you have a blog, drop a mention in whatever manner suits you best. If you want to enlist me in any such enterprise for a Q&A or guest post or whatever, let me know. If you don't have a blog, get one. Or Twitter it. I have no idea what Twitter is, but I hear it's quite fashionable.
Also, if you read the book, please take two minutes and write a review on Amazon. If you haven't read it, check out the reviews that are already there and let them know which ones were "helpful to you" (hint, the five-star ones). You can do that in less time than it took you to read this post.
You did read this far, right?
Hello? Is anybody there? There was going to be cake.
Update Thanks a million to The Millions for taking me up on the Q&A offer. Also, the buzz continues at The Onion AV Club. RR! is... tolerable!
Comments
I aspire, one day, to be thought of as mildly irritating.
Posted by: Jim/The Velvet Blog | May 13, 2008 3:25 PM
re: Rapture Ready!
Rather than a separate Christian pop culture, what's needed is to identify those things within the mainstream pop culture that contain biblical truth.
Reverend John Stott, “Basic Christianity,” has said: “The great tragedy in the church today is that evangelicals are biblical but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical. We need faithfulness to the ancient word and sensitivity to the modern world.”
Check out:
Bob Dylan quiz
http://www.tollbooth.org/2005/features/dylan.html
Johnny Cash quiz
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=17055
The Good Dr. Seuss
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08030097.htm
D’oh! The Simpsons Bible Quiz
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2007/s07080035.htm
Evan Almighty
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2007/s07070165.htm
A Neon Bible Study
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2007/s07030103.htm
Superman As Super Savior
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2006/s06070029.htm
U2 quiz
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2005/s05120086.htm
Posted by: David Buckna | May 14, 2008 3:32 AM