by Peter Joseph Swanson
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April 13, 2007

They spelled it STARDUM on the back of my book!!!

October 17, 2007 07:44 PM EDT
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Do I laugh or cry (or do both real fast) but a librarian friend of mine from Little Rock Arkansas emailed me to tell me there is the word STARDUM on the back of my book HOLLYWOOD SINNERS!  The first in my Tinseltown Trilogy has STARDUM!!! HA HA ha ha ha.

    LOL

I didn't know this until her email, the back of all my copies of the book are the "old" ones.  My publisher recently decided to do me a favor and re-do the back of my book after all this time, to put up a more elaborate blurb.  Ooops for trying to be nice, huh? 

So you all have to get your STARDUM copy before it's gone!!!  (I had the word changed at the website already).  You never know when the copy that has STARDUM on the back will be worth a fortune someday (when I'm as famous as Stephen King - YAY!!)

HOLLYWOOD SINNERS is in general fiction at  http://stonegarden.net/   Make sure you notice the GREAT reviews - and there's more great reviews at Amazon!!!

(I hope everything is spelled right on the front cover) 

 

  
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Comments: 41

Holly J. Oct 17, 2007, 7:51pm EDT
wow, I would have hoped that they would have given you a new copy to view BEFORE they mass published it, opps!
Tiffany G. Oct 17, 2007, 7:54pm EDT
interesting can you give me an idea of what the book is about..
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 7:54pm EDT
Ha ha - it happens too often that nobody notices until some librarian from Little Rock Arkansas says, "Hey, it says STARDUM"

ha ha
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 7:56pm EDT
A very young and very starving farm woman goes to Hollywood to be a star in 1939. It all goes crazy, of course, it's a very festive novel!!!!
P C. Oct 17, 2007, 7:56pm EDT
Funny- Spell check should have caught that one.
Ellynn (minor shoe minion) A. Oct 17, 2007, 7:56pm EDT
Ha! My copy says Stardum, too. How fabulous. Someday when I am in your neck of the woods I will have to have you autograph it for me. Then it will be worth an even bigger fortune, but I will hold on to it greedily, because I owned one of the first Peter Joseph Swanson novels ever printed!
Midnite Writer -- Kim Oct 17, 2007, 7:58pm EDT
awwwwwe, man!
Amanda J. Oct 17, 2007, 7:59pm EDT
Guess the editor missed that one.
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 7:59pm EDT
Ellynn got one of the new batch! LUCKY you!!!!




I was going to hope nobody noticed. Then I decided HECK I'm just going to get some press out of it.

Joan Crawford always said, "Bad press is just as good press - just as long as they're talking about you." Or something like that.

Ha ha.
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 7:59pm EDT
ha ha ha!!!
Rita j. Oct 17, 2007, 8:03pm EDT
funny
Ron Jenkins Oct 17, 2007, 8:11pm EDT
Just remember Stardum spelled backwards is MUDRATS
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:13pm EDT
MUDRATS!!!

And TOO MUCH SCOTCH IN THE EDITOR'S SODA!!!!
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:16pm EDT
I once read an author's comment about the publishing industry in general and he said that as long as they spell your name right on the cover then you can't complain.

So ... I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to get a little press from it - hee hee.

(and it IS shocking!)
Lisa (I love loons) C. Oct 17, 2007, 8:21pm EDT
Well, what's done is done - you might as WELL get some press out of it :) Why not!
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:22pm EDT
DRAMA!!! I WANT DRAMA!!!

- and I'll even take a little stardum!!!
Denise B. Oct 17, 2007, 8:25pm EDT
go ahead and get what you can from it, why not, glad you are taking it so well. Good luck with it.
Marge H. Oct 17, 2007, 8:26pm EDT
Maybe your publisher intended it as a criticism of some Hollywood stars. lol
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:27pm EDT
And HEY, I'm getting GATHER points from it too, now!!!

Woot!!!
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:27pm EDT
Marge, some were a bit dum dum, huh?
Stacey "Yeah, I Said It" H. Oct 17, 2007, 8:28pm EDT
That's not how you spell it?!!! I bet if you ask most of young Hollywood, they wouldn't know the difference...

Too funny, I WILL have to get a copy, now!
Marge H. Oct 17, 2007, 8:28pm EDT
Hooray!
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:28pm EDT
My next novel should be HOLLYWOOD DUM DUM, and STARDUM would be on the back on purpose that time!
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:29pm EDT
I wonder how Britney and Paris spell it.
Marge H. Oct 17, 2007, 8:29pm EDT
I meant the Hooray for the Gather points.
Marge H. Oct 17, 2007, 8:32pm EDT
Not for the misspelling
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:32pm EDT
Oh, YES, always Hooray for Gather points!!!

ALWAYS!!!!
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:33pm EDT
We'll just tell everybody that MGM spelled it that way in the 30s because they were always trying to control everything.

That's the deal, folks.
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:33pm EDT
ha ha
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:35pm EDT
STARDUM is the "cool" way to spell it (wink wink)
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:35pm EDT
I have to go now and drink a box of wine.

(my nerves!)
Anne Marie A. Oct 17, 2007, 8:40pm EDT
They could have spelled it stardumb
Peter Joseph Swanson Oct 17, 2007, 8:44pm EDT
dshgfauid dhsauy iasdygf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ian M. Oct 17, 2007, 9:33pm EDT
The movie Ellie Parker with Naomi Watts might inspire you.
Ron B. Oct 17, 2007, 9:44pm EDT
Peter, if I wrote anything that received the acclaim of Hollywood Sinners, they could misspell my name and I wouldn't care. Congratulations again and again. The excepts you posted sparked interest and hooked me.
Elizabeth E. Oct 17, 2007, 9:48pm EDT
LOL...that is funny!
Miriam Nissan Oct 17, 2007, 10:31pm EDT
From one who frequently does have her name spelled wrong, that fact that yours isnt is something to be proud of! Take it from me!
Nancy O. Oct 17, 2007, 10:52pm EDT
they probably outsourced the printing to a country that doesn't speak english!
Susan E. Oct 17, 2007, 11:21pm EDT
That's so funny. Maybe it will be inspiration for your next book?
Jae F. Oct 18, 2007, 10:17am EDT
LOL!!!
Lacey K. Oct 20, 2007, 11:42am EDT
Oops!

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