A few months ago, I found out about an author named Dan Ariely. His work fascinated me, so I blogged about it a few times (How to Get Someone to Say Yes, The Power of an Irrelevant Option, and The Power of Origin Stories). I also started reading his blog.
A few months ago, Dan posted an offer of sorts on his blog. He asked readers to send in stories (fictional or true) about irrational behavior (that’s the subject of his latest book, Predictably Irrational), and he’d pick a few good ones and post them on his blog.
Today I was reading his blog, and lo and behold, he published my story!!!
This absolutely blows my mind. I’ll be honest–it’s big. 3,700 people subscribe to Dan’s blog. I don’t know how many daily visitors he gets, but to give you a rough idea, my blog has 33 subscribers, but I averaged 458 daily hits in January. Not only that, but it’s friggin’ Dan Ariely!!!
Go check out the story. It’s my first attempt at a fable of sorts. It’s a 3-4 minute read.
I really enjoyed reading your blog. Gave me impetece to start cleaning drawers and decluttering. thanks Jamey. I really am so proud of you. you are so good at what i hate to do writing
Congrats Jamey! I read about half of PI before I had to return it to the library and it was really interesting. Quite an honor to be published by the man himself. Well done!
Thanks dude. I was absolutely flattered. I never even actually heard from him by e-mail or anything–I just sent him the story months ago, and then there it was today. Not that I mind!
Wow! This is awesome. Great job. Your writing is starting to get the acclaim that it deserves!
Good stuff.
I posted a comment under your story on the PI blog, regarding how I did not understand the ending. Another someone followed it up to confirm that they had the same confusion about the story.
Would it be possible for you to address my question, preferably on that forum? Please and thank you!
Thanks for alerting me to this–I just replied on that thread.