But I Love New York-- Part One
pages written since last post: 11 and 1/2 Books uploaded to Amazon Kindle: For Keeps -- This was my first book featuring a dog as a major character. It had to be completely rewritten to reflect modern dog-training techniques. Only $1.99 on Kindle! So I ran into my friend the other day-- I'll call him Dave to avoid embarrassment (mine, not his)-- and congratulated him on his recently self-published memoir. I couldn't help knowing about his recently self-published memoir because everytime I opened an e-mail, visited a shop downtown, or glanced at a newspaper, I saw an announcement. He was very pleased with the way it was going and reported he had already sold 600 copies. "That's great!" I told him sincerely because it was great-- for a self-published memoir that had been out less than three months. Feeling smug, I didn't bother to mention that, had I failed to sell less than six thousand copies in the first quarter of m...