This seems to be a season for sales. A Fistful of Collars, the #ChetandBernie novel that tackles – sort of – the movie business is available digitally for $1.99. $1.99! Think of it! Here’s how it starts:

“Heard you drove another one off a cliff,” said Nixon Panero. He spat a thin brown stream of chewing tobacco into an empty paint can, or maybe not that empty. Yellow paint, the yellow of egg yolks, now with a brown swirl in the middle: there’s all kinds of beauty in life.

“You heard wrong,” said Bernie.