(urth) OT: R.A. Lafferty estate sale

[Matthew Keeley]

Gaiman could buy the Lafferty estate with the income derived from a few
speech appearances:
http://boingboing.net/2010/05/10/neil-gaimans-awesome.html

I think he's in China and away from the Internet now though. Perhaps someone
should alert his assistant?

-Matt

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow, I doubt that either Gaiman or Wolfe has $70K to toss around.
> I could be wrong. But neither of them is in Stephen King/JK Rowling
> territory.
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Petersen
> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Somebody alert Neil Gaiman!  I bet he'd buy this up and do something
> great
> > with it.  He's a huge Lafferty fan.  He's definitely Laff's highest
> profile
> > popularizer right now.
> > -DOJP
> > (Or maybe the mighty Wolfe would do it?  He's a big fan too.)
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> >>
> >> > I dunno. With the right management, Lafferty could be the next Phil
> >> > Dick. A lot of his stories -- I'm talking more about the short stories
> >> > than the novels, now -- would make great movies.
> >>
> >> For $70,000, it seems likely that you could publish 99-cent ebook
> editions
> >> and probably make it back over a few years, even if you sold zero of the
> >> movie rights.
> >>
> >> I mean, there are certainly several of the books I'd pay a buck for to
> >> read on my mobile-device-of-choice.  Spend a little on marketing to make
> >> sure that blogs that people read, like, say, BoingBoing, knew about
> it...I
> >> bet if you had buck-a-book ebooks, and got someone to announce it on
> >> BoingBoing, you'd get halfway to making your money back on the first
> day.
> >>
> >> Adam
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