Hi TL,

I found your blog about my book/movie MERGER very amusing. My first question to you is have you read the book? My guess is you haven't which enables you to say something like 'maybe the movie will be better than the book'...

Secondly, it seems you don't really know about the book publishing process. MERGER was released with very little publicity and very little was done to help support it. This is the way most publishers work with new authors and is a bitter reality of the trade. Given all that, I have at least managed to raise the profile of the book to somewhat respectable levels through my PT Barnum act, so cut me some slack will you?

It's been a real uphill climb to get even blogs to pick up on the book (which is about corporate crime). The web community LOVES to trash corporate criminals and criticize runaway capitalism but won't read a book written about the subject??? Of course you're writing about it now because there may be a movie involved, otherwise you never bothered to pick up the book. See my point?

And given the utter trash that routinely finds its way to the bestseller lists now, including self-help nonsense and the latest pop-star memoirs, I would hope you would give me at least a little credit for writing a real book.

In either case, thanks for taking the time to comment on the Times article.

Best Regards
Sanjay