рџ™‚ That picture is actually a fan of ours named Rebecca. Justin Robert Young: Actually, our names are not on the book itself. Even now, we've started calling it a 'social experiment.вЂќ And yet, in the end, what youвЂ™ve created seems to be a book like any other, if readers are reading it and enjoying it, no less a book than the fan fiction that led to 50 Shades.Д«rian Brushwood: The longer this book stays at the top of the charts, the less like a hoax it begins to feel like. Pub Buzz: And finally, what makes you call this a hoax? Because you put your names on it but you didnвЂ™t write it? Because you never read the contents? Because it was never meant to fit together as a story? HmmmmвЂ¦ now that I say all that, those seem like very good reasons to call it a hoax. This was kind of just putting a lot of pieces together. In fact, since Brian did the Scam School books we were also familiar with the submission process and the idea of mobilizing an audience to get exposure for the project. Our audience, which self-identifies as The Diamond Club (where the name came from) is the most amazing group of people I've ever dealt with. Our Compliment Bomb project is a good example of it. Justin Robert Young: So much of what we do on NSFWshow is crowd sourced so this was a natural outgrowth for us. Neither of us have seen anything like the speed and talent of this giant pack of wildmen and wildwomen. Pub Buzz: How did you come up with the crowdsourcing idea? It seems like a very novel application of a popular trendy approach with a more traditional form.Д«rian Brushwood: That largely came from watching the fans of our NSFW show work: halfway through an episode of our comedy show, we might make a joke about a dubstep remix of a presidential speech, and by the time the episode's over they'll already be sending us a link. Also, to be among names like EL James, Gillian Flynn and Brad Thor is kind of awesome. Justin Robert Young: We were very flattered to outpace Gone Girl (currently the number one NYT Bestseller) for a week with DC. When we made our video for release, we just ran the latest screenshot. At the time of the 'Scam School' release, 7 of the top 10 were romance novels. Pub Buzz: And by the way, did you look closely at the books on the list? One of them, for example, 'Gone Girl,' is actually a very well-written literary thriller and as far as IвЂ™m aware thereвЂ™s no porn in 'Unbroken.'Д«rian Brushwood: Yeah, the top 10 list changed since June. Why did this offend you?Д«rian Brushwood: I'm not in the least bit offended by the success of '50 Shades,' but it was a bit of a bummer to release 'Scam School Book 2' and have it be utterly dominated by books that appeared to be selling mostly because they simply looked like '50 Shades.' Pub Buzz: You said on your video that you saw that the top ten bestselling ebooks on iTunes were 50 Shades of Grey books and various rip-offs. That's something that could only happen in ePub. Less than a year later, he had an agent, four top ten books and one of his books optioned for film. For example, I was sitting next to him on a flight from Houston to Fort Lauderdale when he typed the first chapter to his first novella Grendel's Shadow. He was exclusively ebook and completely blew up as a thriller author over the last year it was inspiring to see him to go from 0 to 60 in such a short time. Justin Robert Young: I have a background chiefly in newspaper reporting and blog writing. p-book debate? Do you prefer to publish in any particular format?Д«rian Brushwood: Before ebooks, I'd previously written ' The Professional's Guide to Fire Eating' and 'Pack the House.' Post-ebooks, I've written ' Scam School Book 1: Smoke' and ' Scam School Book 2: Fire.' How many books have you published? Do you have any strong feelings about the ebook v. Pub Buzz: Tell me about your book publishing history. The two kindly consented to talk to Pub Buzz about the book. They call 'The Diamond Club' their hoax book, and theyвЂ™re mighty proud of their baby, which is 100 percent crowd-sourced. Late last month, they created the ebook on Vook, the new cloud-based ebook publishing platform. To be specific, the literary forces that brought this oeuvre to light are Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young, co-hosts of the weekly comedy show NSFW on. Do we call her by the more formal Patricia, or does she go by the more casual Pat, or the diminutive, Patty? No actually, she is they, and they go by Justin and Brian. A '50 Shades' knock-off, itвЂ™s been bouncing around the top sellers on this list since it was released on July 29.ДЄnd now IвЂ™d like to introduce you to the authorial genius behind this hyper-successful ebook. Right this moment at the iTunes bookstore, the #12 bestseller in paid books is 'The Diamond Club: A Novel' by Patricia Harkins-Bradley.

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