Murder on eBay- Author looking for a murder victim for next novel

[The Straight Story]

Murder on eBay


Author Biff Mitchell is looking for someone to kill – and the victim has to bid at eBay for the honor of being done in.

(PRWEB) October 6, 2004 -- How much would you pay to be murdered? Check out the bidding action at eBay this week to see how much others will pay. Author Biff Mitchell is looking for a murder victim for his next novel, "Murder by Burger," and he’s looking at eBay to fill the slot.

The bidding started on the first Monday morning of October at a whopping one penny. By evening the bids had topped a hundred bucks with a small group of bidders eager to be killed off in Mitchell’s satiric murder mystery. The bidding ends October 13. But why eBay?

“Everybody has a fantasy,” said Mitchell. “And I figured there’s got to be people out there who ponder things like…would I die gracefully if I were murdered? So I invited some of my friends to join me in exploring these possibilities. They all said, sure, but we get to do the writing. I said no, I’m the writer. There were no takers. I had to look somewhere else and, while I was looking, I received one of those fake eBay-update-your-personal-information-so-we-can-get-your-credit-card-number-and-rob-you-blind emails and I said this is the perfect place to find my murder victim.”

Mitchell is the author of three previous novels. His most recent, The War Bug (Double Dragon Publishing, 2004), was a bestseller at EPIC and has been received favorably by reviewers. “It's rare that a novel can so thoroughly capture the mind, heart, and imagination. Biff Mitchell is a blessed breed of writer who mixes the real, surreal, and potentially real by fusing philosophy, science, human emotions, humor, and terror,” said the Blue Iris Journal.

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[Eloriel]

1. So -- anyone need any further "evidence" that we live in

a profoundly sick society?

[The Straight Story]

2. When money is in the drivers' seat

nothing like this surprises me. Though some may say it is not much different in concept than an actor wanting to play a murder victim on screen. It is, afterall, art....