Rob Reid’s First Works of Fiction — Creative Amazon Product Reviews

At a book reading in the Mission this weekend, Rob told the story of his transition from tech entrepreneurship and his first foray into writing fiction in 2002. A hilarious hijacking of an oft-overlooked medium… The pretentious character, Charles Henry Higgensworth III, has created a virtual novel woven into the fabric of the ecommerce site. The posts are all there still, and many of them make a print appearance in Rob’s latest book, After On.

Here’s a video I took of his opening and a 3.5-minute quirky introduction by Charlie Jane Anders (winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel).