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n smooth brains, all you need is a cup or mug or glass or tankard or gigantic cylindrical flask. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Good stuff. Just a warning to you. If you've been trying to

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buy my newish book "God's Debris," this is now the complete works. So it's two books plus a short story. And you tried to get it from Amazon and you tried to get the hardcover. Sometimes it tells you it's available in January, sometimes December, sometimes October, sometimes July. Now you might say to yourself that's weird. It seems like it would only be one of those things if it's all through Amazon and it's all the hardcover. Well there is some kind of glitch going on that I don't quite understand but it's happened with all three books that I've released independently. And it's not necessarily Amazon's problem by the way because we use a third-party entity for the hard copy. So it's probably something about the interface between the two. But a number of people said they had to cancel their order and reorder to get it to arrive in a timely fashion

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. So I recommend that 100% of you who have ordered the book, if it doesn't say July, cancel it. You should cancel it because I don't know what's going on but the people who canceled it and reordered it said it worked. So cancel it. That is my recommendation to you. And by the way it is impossible to become a bestseller if when you launch your book it's not actually for sale. So it does feel like…

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