I added up sales of GODSPAWN and SOUL SURVIVOR, and they come to just under $280.

This is from LJ posts and people passing the word. Period.

I grind my teeth to think of the dull-wittedness of publishers' marketing departments. You want to sell my books, put me in charge of advertising.

First make sure you're wearing a helmet.

And oxygen gear.

I have wanted to post ads for my work on my LJ for years. So far... well, picture somebody trying to solder electronics with his foot.

Not holding a soldering iron; instead of.

A friend of mine has posted that growing up is realizing there's no hope of getting what you want.

It's not. It's giving up hope.

I have not done so, and I got to be what I wanted to be.

I was 42 then.

That means for 20% of my life my hope has been in artery.

If you please, does anybody who likes my work and hasn't posted reviews yet mind posting them on Amazon? The number of reviews does seem to help.

Thank you.

Over Christmas I finally got Amazon to include all my works on my bibliography page.

I immediately made another sale of Soul Survivor.

According to the most recent report from Amazon, my best bet is to attract Kindle customers in India.

Perhaps there is some way to notify them that one of my other works included a nanobot that caused bullies to suffer terminal craniovascular events.

Terrorists and those who support them, for instance.

Valerie has been ill, today she had an emergency which solely by luck did not require hospital care, and her Obamacare-mandated insurance has a $5000 deductible she ain't got ( Read more... )

Okay, I just turned 55, so everybody who has a Kindle go borrow Soul Survivor and Godspawn.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JBMDKCI

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2PY540

Post reviews, too. (I will not request here that they be rave reviews. They will be.)

Soul Survivor And Other Stories and Godspawn are now available for borrowing on Kindle Select at no charge to the reader. Nook availability, never a big return, is suspended until I see how this turns out-- possibly permanently.

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