Amazon and Michael Stadther, the author of the best-selling fantasy novel Treasure Trove, are pimping it up to publicize Stadther's forthcoming release, Secrets of the Alchemist Dar. If you win their "online treasure hunt," you get a big flashy ring from Aaron Basha, best known for making those diamond-encrusted baby shoes that we've never really liked so much. Ok, whatever moves books is good by us. But here's the outrage. The American winner gets this dangling teardop thing: 
The British winner, meanwhile, gets to blind innocent bystanders with a big fat sapphire:
We're thinking of changing our name to Book-and-Kidney-Pie and renting a PO box in Squatney, UK.
that's just plain unamerican!
Posted by: hallgirl | September 13, 2006 at 02:12 PM