Our book is a week away from publication, and while poking around online we noticed something at a few bookseller websites. In the "about the author" section regarding co-writer Todd Robbins, now and then his bio seems a little, well, untrue. This sort of deception goes right in line with The Modern Con Man book and certainly with Todd Robbins...
"He was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina on July 22, 1936. Robbins studied journalism at Washington and Lee for two years and later graduated from the Richmond Professional Institute in 1961. He attended the Graduate School of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. From 1957 to 1960, Robbins served in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Korea as a meteorologist. During his years in the service he took courses in Japanese culture and aesthetics in Tokyo."
Was this some sort of marketing ploy that Bloomsbury devised? And if so, couldn't they have asked us to pen something a little more fun? No. Turns out it's something far dumber. These sites are just pasting in the bio of Tom (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) Robbins!
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