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

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

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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