I meant to write this at Christmas, but due to this and that, didn’t get around to it. But here it is, and it is an astonishing fact:
In the month between Nov. 19 — Dec. 20, I got 20 orders for Wet Goddess!
I haven’t had that level of holiday sales since 2010 or 2011, when the book was new, or still relatively new, and David Farrier did his now-notorious interview with me.
What’s even more impressive is that three of those orders were multiples, one for 3 copies, and two for 2. What does that mean? It means they don’t just want to find out about dolphins for themselves, they want someone else to read it. Total sold: 24 copies.
When you consider that the narrator (me, aw shucks) is a zoophile, this is remarkable. What message does it send, giving Wet Goddess for a holiday present? That you are a zoophile? That you are interested in communicating with dolphins and willing to invest $18.95 + S/H? That you have a streak of perverse sexuality in you?
Yes. Perhaps all these things, perhaps other reasons that haven’t imagined. “The Universe is,” as Exeter the alien from Metaluna said in the 1956 special-effects spectacle This Island Earth, “vast, and full of wonders.” I hope it always remains that way.
Malcolm J. Brenner 
..this feeling when you were looking for ‘meme’ keyword on already-trawled blog, and found post where at least first few comments for some reason revolve around “dolphin sex” (probably just as some hyperbole. But blog itself is interesting, even if hard to read completely in less than few days)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/02/please-ignore-the-damned-being.html
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I read the blog, and here is what I think: as a writer, I write the same way people with something under their skin scratch: because it itches. I write because if I didn’t tell the stories I have to tell they would die with me. I write because certain things and people and places need to be immortalized, so the future can reflect on them. Because if I didn’t write them down, the stories would burst out of me.
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