{"id":8622,"date":"2014-06-04T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2014-06-04T06:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:30:46","slug":"he-said-hed-pray-for-my-deranged-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/he-said-hed-pray-for-my-deranged-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"He Said He&#8217;d Pray For My Deranged Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pull up a seat, babycakes.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I posted a link to a short story (just 5-pages) I wrote\u00a0when I was 20-years old. If you read it and if you liked it, you\u00a0will probably also dig my &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; novel as well &#8212; as it&#8217;s\u00a010x&#8217;s more violent and disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>(One amazon review said he&#8217;d pray for my deranged soul).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also gotten some &#8220;gold card&#8221; testimonials, too.<\/p>\n<p>Including from world class copywriter (and author of over 75 books)\u00a0<strong>Bob Bly<\/strong> &#8212; who said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A fun, entertaining, engaging, and compelling read that draws you in and keeps you turning pages<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from the &#8220;most published author of computer books&#8221; on the\u00a0planet Greg Perry &#8212; who said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>To keep up with Zombie Cop, book writers and Hollywood are going to have to step-up their game. The bar&#8217;s just\u00a0been raised<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from one of the most respected and in-demand book cover artists\u00a0in the bid&#8217;niz Kirk DouPonce (who works for all the world&#8217;s biggest\u00a0book publishers, such as Simon and Schuster, McGraw Hill, Harper\u00a0Collins\/Zondervan and Thomas Nelson) &#8212; who said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Reading [this] book and designing the cover were \u00a0a lot more fun than most of my work!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plus, a bunch more on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Including reviews saying it&#8217;s better than Jack Reacher.<\/p>\n<p>Better than Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p>And, even better than The Walking Dead.<\/p>\n<p>Are they right?<\/p>\n<p>Hellz naw.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s all subjective, yo?<\/p>\n<p>So, I suppose that&#8217;s for individual readers to decide.<\/p>\n<p>All I will say is this:<\/p>\n<p>I never intended for it to be the &#8220;best written&#8221; book (it won&#8217;t win\u00a0any literary awards). But, I do hope people find it the most\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">entertaining<\/span> read of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>(That is, &#8217;til I publish the sequel later this year&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, call-to-action time:<\/p>\n<p>You can see\u00a0all the reviews, or read the first chapter, or buy\u00a0it (in kindle, paperback, or audio book) here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ZombieCopBook.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.ZombieCopBook.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making this up as I go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> If you read it and haven&#8217;t left a review on Amazon, I&#8217;d\u00a0definitely appreciate it if you would. Even if it&#8217;s just a few\u00a0sentences telling me what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Gracias, mein freund&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pull up a seat, babycakes. Yesterday I posted a link to a short story (just 5-pages) I wrote\u00a0when I was 20-years old. If you read it and if you liked it, you\u00a0will probably also dig my &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; novel as well &#8212; as it&#8217;s\u00a010x&#8217;s more violent and disturbing. (One amazon review said he&#8217;d pray for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}