Black Friday: Nov 28
Black Friday. Gone are the days of a mad stampede through department store doors to snap up the $20 TVs and 50 cent socks.
The first recorded Black Friday was in 1307 when a pet store discounted all their rats to one penny with the slogan: “Buy One Get One Flea”
Understandably, the popularity of Black Friday waned until the 1970s when Macy’s decided to blow out all the
It wasn’t until the invention of the flat screen TV that consumers were willing to risk life and limb for a great deal because before that, no one wanted to carry out a heavy cathode-ray tube television.
The whole online shopping frenzy began once the dial-up connection time was cut from hissss-beep-blorp-buzz-buzz-hiss-beep-beep-gorble-gorble-beep to only three beeps and one gorble.
Now Black Friday runs from the end October to the end of November just in time for people to realize they just spent all their money on themselves so for Christmas everyone will just get $10 gift cards.
None of my books are on sale, but I think they are all reasonably priced!
Happy Holidays!
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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