I ordered some shoes the other day from Naturalizer. They arrived by UPS yesterday, and inside the box was the usual array of coupons and special offers (let me know if you need $10 off a pair of Naturalizers), including a $3.00 rebate offer “On the purchase of the novel. Enjoy your Naturalizer shoes with inspirational authors Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeldt and their extraordinary groundbreaking novel Ladies Who Launch,” and so on and so forth.Personally, I think it would be great fun to enjoy my new shoes with a couple of inspirational authors, and “Ladies Who Launch” is a cute name for a novel, and heaven knows I could use the three bucks, but…something about this offer just didn’t add up. I puzzled and puzzled ‘til my puzzler was sore, and then finally I figured it out: Ladies Who Launch isn’t a novel. It isn’t a NOVEL. It’s a nonfiction book on entrepreneurship. Why are they calling it a novel? Are they trying to fool us? Do the people at Naturalizer and St. Martin’s Press not know what a novel is? Which scenario is worse? The whole thing is bizarre.
I ordered some shoes the other day from Naturalizer. They arrived by UPS yesterday, and inside the box was the usual array of coupons and special offers (let me know if you need $10 off a pair of Naturalizers), including a $3.00 rebate offer “On the purchase of the novel. Enjoy your Naturalizer shoes with inspirational authors Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeldt and their extraordinary groundbreaking novel Ladies Who Launch,” and so on and so forth.Personally, I think it would be great fun to enjoy my new shoes with a couple of inspirational authors, and “Ladies Who Launch” is a cute name for a novel, and heaven knows I could use the three bucks, but…something about this offer just didn’t add up. I puzzled and puzzled ‘til my puzzler was sore, and then finally I figured it out: Filed under: authors, books Tagged: | Ladies Who Launch, Naturalizer, rebates, shoes, St. Martin's Press
Just looking at the cover, I thought “that doesn’t look like a novel at all…”