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he "likes" me - be still, my heart! There are a few things I'd like to add now to my orgiinal post.1. When I wrote it, it was still in the first day of the Kindle free phrase for The Thin Pink Line. The book actually was downloaded many thousands more times and since it went back to being a paid ebook, I'm selling far more than I did before the free promotion. 2. TKA is doing a lot more than just uploading The Bro-Magnet and doing the cover etc and they have been well worth the 15%. Here's just one example of many: they got the book listed on NetGalley and it went out in NetGalley's email blast to 40,000 subscribers. The influential author Dear Author saw it there, decided to review it, wrote a rave - not an easy thing to get a rave out of the notoriously prickly D.A. - and as a result was reviewed by many more bloggers including one who also reviews for USAToday online. That blogger also loved The Bro-Magnet and reviewed it for USAToday online, which means I now have a legitimate blurb for an ebook from one of the most high-profile review sources in the country. How cool is that? As I say, that's just one trail of success for the book I can trace back to TKA's efforts and every day I am brainstorming with them about other things we can try. I come up with ideas, they come up with ideas, and we all do our best to bring those ideas to best fruition. I have been published by Random House, Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bloomsbury, and RDI, and I have *never* had a more positive and enjoyable publishing experience.3. There's nothing about my contract with TKA that requires me to do any further ebooks with them after this first one - I can publish other ebooks on my own tomorrow, if I so choose - and yet I've already decided I want to do another ebook with them in March (it's called Z) and the buzz for The Bro-Magnet has been so overwhelmingly positive that I'm writing a sequel and I can't imagine publishing that particular book with anyone but TKA.4. Someone mentioned that The Bro-Magnet is not available on all platforms yet. This is true. But it will be! The nice thing about ebook publishing is that you have the luxury of time. With trad publishing, if all your ducks aren't in place by pub date, you're pretty screwed. But with this, we can roll things out at our own pace. And while TKA may not have The Bro-Magnet up on Kobo yet, daily they are taking care of the whole of my career - e.g., managing my relationships with my various publishers and getting my latest middle-grade novel out on submission.5. I'd expected Joe to deride me for "giving" 15% away and yet I see he has recently made a similiar decision to try epubbing a book with his agent, so if I'm wrong, I'm wrong in good company. And actually, I don't think either of us are wrong - we're simply exploring all our options and then deciding on the best options for us on a book-by-book basis. I'm not trying to prescribe anything for anyone else - just me.6. You wouldn't think a dead-dog story would provoke so much mirth, but for those of you who read my interview with Joe, you have no idea how many people I've set to cackling over Joe's dead-dog story. So thanks for that too, Joe.
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