Writer's Marketing Plan: Death

clipped from seattlepi.nwsource.com Vonnegut sales spike on Amazon.com His death on Wednesday inspired a rush to reconnect with the darkly humorous novelist, whose works leaped into 14 of the top 20 "Movers & Shakers" slots at Amazon.com -- a measure of sales in the previous 24 hours. The spike in sales of his best-known works was impressive: "Slaughterhouse Five" -- up by 1,885 percent; "A Man Without a Country" -- up by 5,333 percent; "Cat's Cradle" -- up by 1,423 percent. Too bad he's not around to see it.