Hello, and welcome to the Advance Reader Team!

Thank you again for supporting my first book Aim for the Middle: How to Achieve Happiness, Success, and Love Through the Unbridled Power of Mediocrity.

Today’s the day to start reading!

READING TIP: the book is literally much shorter if you don’t move your lips when you read it.

You’ll have 26 days to read as much (or little) as you want (or can) before the August 28 launch day when you’ll log onto Amazon, buy it for 99¢, and leave your (brief) review.

If you want more information on the Advance Reader Team, check out my previous email—thatta lotta you never even saw causea stupid Gmail filters sending it to the Promotions folder.

Oh! Almost forgot. The book is still being proofed so I'm sure you’ll spot some typos and mispelings in this advance copy (doesn’t seem so advanced if it’s making mistakes).

I’d be most appreciative if you'd email your findings to me at: info@aimforthemiddlebook.com by August 15. Include the subject line YOU F*#KED UP AGAIN! And please, send tipos and misspellins ONLY—not ways to make the book better. It’s too late for a rewrite and my delicate flower of an ego would not survive you being better or funnier than me.

I’ll check in with you again in a week or so to see how you’re holding up (reading my book is like having sex: it’s a long, laborious process that misses the mark most of the time, but thankfully there’re enough laughs in it to make it worth the effort).

Remember the à la Mode! (Especially with pie.)

Michael

2-legit 2-quit