Reddit reviews Malibu (Images of America)

Most popular is probably Images of America: Malibu. I get compliments on that all the time. https://www.amazon.com/Malibu-Images-America-Ben-Marcus/dp/073857614X

Most successful is The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little. He sold 10,000 copies of that at $100 to $250, and that's good for a book: https://clarklittlephotography.com/products/shorebreak-art-limited-signed-edition

Skateboard: The Good, the Rad and the Gnarly was translated into French and almost won a 3000 Euro prize for Sports Book of the Year in France. They were going to fly me to Monaco and put me up in the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel, and the thing was, I didn't even know they had translated it into French.

The hardcover versions sells for over $100, which is shocking: https://www.amazon.com/Skateboard-Style-Stoke-Hardback-Common/dp/B00FKYPZJM/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=The+skateboard+marcus&qid=1567218903&s=gateway&sr=8-5

This is the French version. I like the cover better: https://www.amazon.com/Skateboard-rue-rampe-Ben-Marcus/dp/2366025408/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=skateboard+de+la+rue+a+la+rampe&qid=1574212512&s=books&sr=1-1

Those are probably the big three.

Here's all of them: http://www.benmarcusrules.com/books

Because people pay me to write and people tell me I'm good at it.

Some very famous people, in fact.

People love this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Malibu-Images-America-Ben-Marcus/dp/073857614X

I did a book signing at Malibu and met a lot of people whose work I like: Minnie Driver, James Remar, Steven Spielberg, Sting, Katharine Ross, Leonard Maltin - all because of a silly little history book.

26 books are not by chance.

This one was translated into French and the publisher didn't even tell me:

https://www.amazon.com/Skateboard-Ben-Marcus-ebook/dp/B0055Q6DEQ

This guy reviewed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEs3SPy0bKk

It was nominated for Sports Book of the Year by the Sportel Awards in France.

A book I didn't know had my name on it.

They were going to fly me to Monaco and put me up in the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel, but I was in Hawaii and it was too far - 24 hours on a plane for one night in a hotel.

I probably wouldn't have gone anyway. so I sent the photographer. Lucia, who was in France.

She went with her dad, who was in Venice.

We didn't win.

A pity, because I could have used the 3000 Euro prize.

All of that suggests to me I know what I'm doing.

Having a book translated into French I didn't even know about.

And I had another one translated into German.

Meanwhile, you haven't produced anything.

Except mucus, methane, moaning and carbon dioxide.

You just hide behind avatars and whine at the world.

If you ever do anything remotely that interesting, you let the world know, will you?

Hey Ben! Thanks for taking interest in me, but I know where this is going to go so I'll leave you after that :)

I haven't taken an interest in you. The reverse is true.

Before I go, a small point. Please, stop with your grammar nazi act.

Nazi should be capitalized. It's a noun and and the Germans capitalize all their nouns.

You should know that this is the surest way of looking like you are loosing any argument online.

""Loosing? Losing. You certainly just lost this argument. And I've never lost an argument on Reddit.

Especially when your own writing style is far from flawless (for example: you make a remark about good punctuation separating one from the mongrel races while not using the Oxford comma in that sentence? WTF I say, lol).

Oxford comma is optional. I've never liked it or used it, so I don't. It's not a hard and fast rule. It's style.

Enjoy the rest of your sad day!

Today I am looking for 14 modern Malibu girls to recreate this photo that is on the cover of a Malibu book I did.

https://www.amazon.com/Malibu-Images-America-Ben-Marcus/dp/073857614X

The same publisher wants me to do Malibu: Past and Present, which is modern angles of vintage photos.

That's not a sad day, looser. That's a fun day, and tomorrow's Sunday.**