Wow.
The Perry sale at Amazon.com the past week was a smashing success! I
knew it would be, but I don’t think I expected so many of the volumes to sell
so well they would go out of immediate stock and take several weeks to ship.
Hopefully that has gotten Amazon’s attention. Perry has been one of the
best-sellers in their DVD departments the past few days. Now if they would just
realize how many people would pounce if they’d bring the price of the second
half of season 8 into a reasonable range! I don’t understand what the problem
is and why it has to be so expensive. People are still mad, insisting they
won’t buy it on Amazon and that they’ve found it cheaper elsewhere. I can’t buy
it on Amazon either, not at their price.
Also,
long ago I got a giggle out of the fact that Richard Anderson plays a character
named Ray Norman on The New Perry Mason, when Wesley Lau plays a
character of the exact same name on Cannon. (And I write for Wesley’s
Ray Norman in a Wild Wild West time-travel story that includes Perry characters.)
I idly wondered if the scripts were written by the same person, since it seems
odd for that name to appear twice in two shows around the same time period.
I
finally got around to looking it up. And guess what? It really is the
same writer! Robert W. Lenski did both The Telltale Trunk for The New
Perry Mason and Hear No Evil for Cannon. I am finding this
hilarious. I really expected it to just be a weird coincidence and that the
writers would be different. But with this information, I’d say that either Mr.
Lenski really liked the name Ray Norman or he was just bored or in a hurry and
couldn’t think of another name. Or he even forgot he had used it recently.
Last night I made a few updates to that Perry website I work on now and then. (http://sites.google.com/site/perrymasoncontinued/) I
have been getting story inspiration for the Perry mystery scheduled to
come after The Malevolent Mugging. I’d really like to try it out, both
because the ideas are so strong and because I think and hope it might be fairly
popular, with Della in a central role. (Also present would be Gene Torg and
Pearl Chute from The Bogus Books.)
But
at the same time I’m concerned about trying to juggle two Perry
mysteries at once (and the Wild Wild West story). If the new one takes
off, updates for The Malevolent Mugging will come even less frequently.
If I wait to finish it first, however, I’m nowhere near the end and I might
start rushing it. I know for a fact that The Malevolent Mugging has
readers, even if they’re often quiet, so I don’t want to disappoint them by
having this story take even longer to finish. Or by rushing it and lessening
the quality.
But
when inspiration calls, it’s hard to make it be silent. Maybe the best thing to
do is to just start trying to write the first bit and see what happens.
Tentatively the story is to be called The Nefarious Necklace (or something
similar) and involves plot ideas both from me and from a reviewer and friend.
And
NPR’s Perry-related piece involving Hamilton is this Tuesday, the 15th, on their
Morning Edition show! If you haven’t already, look for your local affiliate or
plan to listen online.
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