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Screams desperation doesn't it? Has King's sales plummeted? If I dropped to tacky publicity stunts it probably means my publisher has already half kicked me through the door!
I always think Leo is one of those actors who will still look 11 when he's 90. Like Ian Beale (but better looking).
Best way to expand your vocabulary is to read, and read.
Perhaps we get too many of these wacky publicity stunts on this side of the world and think, 'oh no, not another one!'.
It's crude (just like his writing!)
I'm a great believer in the writing talking for itself.
That is their preference. Some people just don't like reading. My sister doesn't, but that doesn't mean she isn't clever. Quite the opposite she spent five hours last night playing the piano and learning her theory (she's also applying for a degree in music performance.)
It is not necessarily a matter of intelligence. To me it's more a matter of what you allow yourself to experience and in not reading you are cutting out of your life a method of challenging yourself, your opinions and expanding your knowledge.
Most people I speak to who do not read would like to read more or feel they should read more but just never get round to it.
I think reading can really add to a person and to me the more people that read or are encouraged to (by advertising campaigns or otherwise) then the more knowledgable and open-minded it allows us to be as a society.
There is promotion, and there is publicity (the kind that Jordan/Katie Price courts.)
Anyway, back to topic - the cover girl's a model - it's what she does. And it works. So I'm with IG and others on this.
Now who saw the film the Pillow Book? - now Ewan McGregor being written on - discuss. ;)
I think that it is good though to encourage people to experience past times etc that will benefit them. I learned to play the piano when I was younger and I would recommend it to people. By the same arguement though I am not into sports and they would probably benefit me if I was. But if an advertising campaign came along that gave me a bit of a kick up the arse to do my sports then I would welcome it.
The nudity was just used to get more men to buy Esquire in my view.
Hehehe - perhaps there was a reason for that, LT. :D
I'm not surprised :) ! I'm with the 'I like it' brigade.
And how dare he write on a woman!! Ink on skin, that would have never happened in my generation!! *shakes fist*
Well at least nobody but a community of writers is discussing, in depth, this 'shameless' publicity stunt.
If I ever become famous enough to carry out a publicity stunt like this...shake my hand!
Okay when my book is published I want it scrawled over Rafael Nadal's body!