It is with all urgency and diligence that I call on Mr. Adam Walker Cleaveland to immediately stop distributing the images and copyrighted material that has come into his possession regarding the book Church in the Inventive Age.
On August 1st my book Church in the Inventive Age will be released through all book retailing channels.
But until that time the book is in the development stage. There are changes being made to the content, positioning and layout of the book.
While the book does exist in developmental beta form, it is not a public product until its official release on August 1.
August 1 has been the announced and firm date of availability of Church in the Inventive Age. We have been clear about this and take copyright very seriously.
For Mr. Walker Cleaveland to have obtained a copy of the book through the unintentional activity of a wayward member of the development team who recently and inadvertently left a copy of the book in a public establishment does not grant Mr. Walker Cleaveland the right nor prerogative to publish picture or facts about the book on his website.
It has also come to my attention that Pomomusings may have paid for a copy of the development copy of the book and that constitutes trafficking in stolen material
I have asked the authorities in the county of Mr. Walker Cleaveland’s residence to look into the matter of any laws that may have been broken. I hope this does not lead to the issue of search warrant of POMOMUSINGS digs.
Unfortunately Mr. Walker Cleaveland is on vacation in Hawaii and cannot be reached.
I call on Mr. Walker Cleaveland to cut his vacation in Hawaii short and come home to deal with this matter. I do not believe he can give appropriate attention to this matter while on vacation in Hawaii. In other words, he is not the President and this is not Christmas.
I am demanding that this book, which has been called “the book that changes everything” be returned to me immediately.
I take very seriously my right to promise a book that will “change everything” and to release that book on a date of my choosing and thereby have everything not change until the point at which the marketing of the book is at a fevered pitch.
I have issued the following letter to Mr. Walker Cleaveland.
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This has got to be the biggest thing to leak since the iPhone 4.0.
I like the gimmick.
Happy July 6 Fools Day!!!
Great gimmick to market the book
Way not cool! He should return your book immediately.
Haha! Doug Pagittness Inc. That’s awesome!!!
If this is for real, he should definitely return your book.
And you should definitely rethink statements like this: “I am demanding that this book, which has been called ‘the book that changes everything’ be returned to me immediately.”
What a bizarre situation in which to self-promote.
B.C.
At first I too thought this was legit. Reread it though, it’s a total promotional tool. And a genius one at that! The best jokes are the ones that have a hint of plausibility to them.
I’ve heard that someone had it at a bar and left it when they had drank a bit too much. Then someone found it and Walker Cleaveland allegedly bought it for 5,000 dollars so he could get the scoop.
That’s the dirt on the internets at least.
Makes me think of Woody Guthrie’s famous quote: “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”
I’m sure this is not the only thing that Mr. WC has stolen. I’ve wondered about the source of many a sermon, or maybe he bought those too, I don’t know.
Got it. I plead caffeine deficit that morning for not getting the joke.
To be believed, I don’t think the statement should have said the book that “changes everything” twice in the same statement. A little over-promotion…and how can poor Mr Cleveland return a book to “Doug Pagittness, Inc” when there is no entity of that name recorded as a legal entity, assumed name or tradestyle in the secretary of state records? hmmmmm…
would would Jesus say?
some how I don’t think public litigiousness would have been his take.
Some people really believe deeply in this Church institution stuff, while people like you and politicians just make profit off their backs…
I can hardly wait. Only 24 more days until everything changes. Does this extend to the changing of my car’s oil, my bed sheets, my underwear, or only my attitude toward satire?
Stop!!! Cease and desist!!! I’ll buy the book already! Aaaaaaarghh!
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