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| Rob signing my copy of Starship Grifters |
I am sure that some of you remember Diesel who used to blog
at Mattress Police. It was one of the
more humorous blogs around. A number of
years ago, Diesel (whose real name is Rob Kroese) shifted his focus from
writing blogs to books. I reviewed his first
book, Mercury Falls, Mercury is an
even more unlikely angel than Clarence in It’s
a Wonderful Life. He’s been sent to
earth to bring about Armageddon, but decides he likes life here too much that
he stalls for time. Rob has done well as
an author. His first book was
self-published and has sold over 60,000 copies! Since then, Rob has published a number of
other books, having been picked up by 47 North , the science fiction publishing
arm of Amazon. He has also moved from
California to Grand Rapids. On Friday
evening, there was a grand kickoff for his newest book, Starship Grifters (a
sci-fi comedy). As the ballroom at the Amway
Grand was already booked (this being wedding season, after all), Rob held the
shindig at the condo’s clubhouse and enlisted his mother to prepare the snacks
(wonderful meatballs). There was also a
good beer selection which naturally drew me up to the big city for the
gathering. Congratulations, Rob. Keep us laughing!
By the way, Rob reportedly sold the domain for Mattress
Police to an inspection service within the mattress industry…
Lovely post that gives hope to bloggers like yours truly. Maybe one my ship will come in! :-) In the meantime, good luck to Rob.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
Sound interesting. Also very much like 'Good Omens', by Gaiman and Pratchett.
ReplyDeleteSounds like something I'd like, as I enjoy humorous books when I'm not engrossed in mystery/suspense. That's great you got to be a part of the get-together. Beer and meatballs work for me, too. ;)
ReplyDeleteThat is both interesting and funny. I ad no idea 47 North even existed. Congratulation to the author on reaching this milestone. It serves as additional proof to me that there are various forms of independent publishing, just as there is music production.
ReplyDeleteSounds like he's carved out a dream career. I must admit to being jealous.
ReplyDeletenice...i will def have to check this out...i am def a fac of the genre...and its cool to know that some of the writers online actually make it as well...not bad at all for a self published book too...
ReplyDeleteGood to see the discipline of blogging flowering into a novel.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Rob! Inspiring tale....
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