A million dollars a day?

[jhetley]

Well, technically, $12.5 million over 11 days. That's the "handle" for the 475 slot machines now installed in the former Miller's Restaurant (hiss boo) for our shiny new racino.

Granted, some of that represents money bet twice or more, with the one-armed bandit addicts plowing their jackpots back into play, but still. Hell of a lot of disposable income for a hick town in the impoverished back woods....

22,000 patrons, probably also multi-counted as they went out for smoke breaks and came back in.

Wonder how I can arm-twist some of them into buying books instead? Or buying renovation prospects in the local historic district?

Comments

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Wonder how I can arm-twist some of them into buying books instead?
Offer a one-in-some-small-percentage chance of their being included as bit characters in the next book?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Steve King and a buncha other Names just did that for a charity auction. Don't know if I can slip it in a private benefit thing.

Do I get to kill off the character?

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Do I get to kill off the character?
Can't see why not; it's your book, after all.

Actually, you could get an awful pun out of the experience. Have the one-armed bandits electrocute the character in question (along with everyone else in the Naskeag Falls Racino); then the hard-boiled homicide detective working the case can comment "I thought those were supposed to be *slot* machines, not *slaughter* machines!"

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Naskeag Falls lies currently under papal interdict, pending further sales in that universe. The forensic mage works in an unnamed city, disguising vital aspects of the case, as he wants to remain anonymous due to certain unsavory characters hunting for him.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I'd buy a renovation prospect but not in Maine and I'd do the work myself. So guess I'm stuck buying books. What's the best place for you? Amazon, Barnes and Noble or where? And I think I can leave a review at either site without actually purchasing from there.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Theory hath it that buying a book from a gen-u-ine bricks 'n mortar bookstore does the author more good, as that encourages the stocking of books in places where random browsers might find authors they've never heard of. I don't know if this be truth.

Amazon.com vs BN.com is kinda a tossup. I would welcome (favorable) reviews at either or both. Hell, sign in under 25 aliases and run the changes.... Five-star ratings encouraged.