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A Financial Director From New Jersey Who Lives With His Wife And A German Shepherd Named Bodhi Has Written And Published A Dark Fantasy Novel As A Work Of Love For The Reader; It Is An Homage To Moorcock, Glen Cook, And Lovecraft; It Is The First Book In A Series; The Author’s Entire Marketing Campaign Is One Facebook Post Containing A Very Long Amazon Link And The Word ‘Lol’; Millicent, Who Covers Billion-Dollar Attention Machines For A Living, Considers This The Best Marketing Campaign She Has Seen All Year

Joseph Richter resides in New Jersey, where he works as a financial director for a local non-profit and lives with his wife and a German Shepherd named Bodhi. He has, per his own account, a deep enjoyment of the horror and fantasy genre. That enjoyment has now produced a book. The book is called 'The Mansion of Twilight,' the first installment in a series titled 'Game of the Gods.' It is, per the back cover, an homage to Michael Moorcock, Glen Cook, and H.P. Lovecraft — a tale of friendship set in a multiversal realm of wonders, mystery, and horror, written, in the author's words, 'as a work of love for you the reader.' It is available now on Amazon. The author announced its publication on Facebook by posting a photograph of the physical book with the caption 'Who woulda thought right? Lol,' followed by a second post containing a very long Amazon link and the observation: 'This is the extent of my marketing campaign.' Millicent Hearsay, Culture Desk — who spends her professional life documenting billion-dollar machines engineered to manufacture attention — would like to state, for the record, that this is the most refreshing marketing campaign she has encountered all year, and that everyone reading this should go buy Joe Richter's book.

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A Financial Director From New Jersey Who Lives With His Wife And A German Shepherd Named Bodhi Has Written And Published A Dark Fantasy Novel As A Work Of Love For The Reader; It Is An Homage To Moorcock, Glen Cook, And Lovecraft; It Is The First Book In A Series; The Author’s Entire Marketing Campaign Is One Facebook Post Containing A Very Long Amazon Link And The Word ‘Lol’; Millicent, Who Covers Billion-Dollar Attention Machines For A Living, Considers This The Best Marketing Campaign She Has Seen All Year

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