The West Oversea experiment

Last week we blogged about Dan Brown’s new book, which, despite its awful writing and worse themes, is destined to sell untold millions of copies. We contrasted that with the new novel by Lars Walker, who hangs out at this blog, which is very well written and deserves a wide audience. See my review of his book West Oversea. In a comment, Lars made the excellent point that many “well written” literary novels are not very enjoyable to read, due to the nature of the contemporary artistic scene. His book about Vikings, on the contrary, is both well-written and enjoyable to read, a real-page-turner, full of excitement, wonder, and imaginative Christian themes.

I propose that we mobilize the vast Cranach republic to help bring attention to this novel. As of the time I write this, the book ranks #915,845 in sales on Amazon. If people buy even a relatively small number of books in a brief interval, that can send the Amazon rankings soaring. A book with a soaring ranking can attract other buyers. That sends the ranking up even higher. Which attracts even more buyers, leading potentially to viral hype and best-seller status in all the bookstores. Let’s buy Lars’s novel from Amazon in large quantities and see how high we can gin up the rankings.