You roll what you read
Novel Highjnks
Writers’ Week
Dody Blunt’s ‘Dash Stash Hash Agent’ novels sold millions of copies. And not just because she was popular with potheads. Or, perhaps, not just because the books were popular with potheads, which they were, but because she wrote stories that compelled potheads to buy every book she wrote. And not just potheads but libertarians, environmentalists, and civil liberties activists — any readers who longed for the thrill of high-riding on the open road, defending the innocent and their right to alternative health care, not to mention American’s right to worship their higher power with any substance they chose.
Every Dash Stash novel began with someone texting his emergency number 4–2–0. It might be a corporate developer looking to run harmless weed farmers off their land, DEA terrorists looking to close Constitutionally legal pot shops in less enlightened states, government regulators looking the other way as mining and forestry tried to take over federal land where entrepreneurial farmers grew weed for seniors suffering from glaucoma.
Every Dash Stash novel began with someone texting his emergency number 4–2–0. It might be a corporate developer looking to run harmless weed farmers off their land, or DEA terrorists looking to close Constitutionally legal pot shops.
Nobody ordered the eBooks either. It was a matter of faith that you could only get the full effect of Dash Stash novels in print, with the recycled paper and the words of Dash in green. Readers packed their bags with the novels whenever they traveled, high school kids carried them in their backpacks, and church kids hid them when their parents shuffled them off to Bible camp.
Critics couldn’t understand the books’ popularity. Blunt lifted her prose from comic book panels, her plots overreached, and her characters were one-dimensional. Nor could anyone explain the fact that few readers read the books to the end. They intended to, but they were “distracted.” But Dody’s fan base knew the real reason for the books’ popularity, and why they willingly bought multiple copies of the same book time and time again.
Her publisher printed on recycled paper as advertised, onto paper recycled from marijuana plants which made them perfect for rolling pages in other pages which made equally perfect rolling papers.
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Wry noir author Phillip T. Stephens wrote Cigerets, Guns & Beer, Raising Hell, the Indie Book Award winning Seeing Jesus, and the children’s book parody Furious George. Follow him at Phillip T Stephens.
