I have a BOOK out!

Let me explain what I've done, and maybe we can all help each other...

I don’t want to get into the habit of writing too much and cluttering up your email, but I have to tell you what I did.

I’ve published a book.

Yes, at first I was trying to get it out on Apple Books, but it just wasn’t working for me. I uploaded it and when I went to give my information, it wouldn’t accept me. It kept coming up with things that said: That bank doesn’t exist. What do you mean it doesn’t exist? It’s an international bank you stupid, twats! And then, it told me I had to put in the “router code. It’s the nine number sequence on the bottom of your personal cheque.

Yeah, we don’t have that here.

So I phoned the bank, asked her if she knew what it was, and she gave me some numbers and told me to try it out. And it didn’t work. I tried again, thinking maybe I made a boo-boo. Nope. So I thought, I’ll just put up zeroes. Well, poke me in the pecker with a stick! It worked.

So I tried putting my story up, but the formatting wasn’t working. So I had to take it down. I’d fix whatever was wrong, upload it again, and again, screwed over. That’s when I saw in the Notes section of this site, that I was having problems. Someone suggested Draft2Digital. So I went there and took a look.

I had the story up as an eBook. I didn’t care at the moment what it was. I thought, I’ll put it up as an eBook, and when I figure things out, I’ll try a book. They were offering paperback. I uploaded my story, and it did the rest. All I had to do was choose a book cover. And pay for it. But I don’t mind, because it’s not Ai. It’s a real artist doing it. I didn’t get what I was looking for, and had to sort of “settle.”

I’m not saying I don’t like the cover. I do.

Now before you go all Ape-shit on me, I want you to know that they picked the prices. They told me I should inform the reader as to how many pages are in it. Well, Draft2Digital did it in 164 pages; Apple did it in 220 pages. But they chose the price as well.

$11.99

No one’s gonna buy that! It gives me $1.97 in royalties. But, it also promises to put it in different bookstores around the world.

You can Pre-order it in Kobo, or on Smashwords, or any one of a dozen different places…worldwide.

And here’s the best part…because I didn’t really know what I was doing, I now have two versions coming out on the same day. Paperback, and eBook. The eBook is a whopping $3.99. I get $2.37 in Royalties with that one. Now I can’t be sure, but I believe someone may have pre-ordered an eBook.

If that was you, I thank you.

I don’t want this to get too long, but I was playing with some numbers earlier, feeding them into ChatGPT. I have 934 Subscribers, and a total of 3,354 total Followers. I don’t expect all of you to buy an eBook, let alone a paperback. But I have to pay for the books I want to use for advertising. We have a few small bookstores here, and if I can convince them to pick up my book, I might be able to sell some. We also have a couple of big “Flea Markets.” I’d like to rent a table and sell there as well. I wouldn’t be able to make a profit, but I’d get the word out.

In order for me to make money, I have to put myself out there. I have to advertise and put it out there on Reddit, and Pinterest, Facebook, and, what’s that new one? Blue-whatever.

The one thing I have to understand is that this is one of those “long-game” scenarios. If my goal is to sell a thousand books, I have to remember that it might take me years. It could be less, but I have to be realistic.

I could also hit the jackpot and get picked up by Reese’s Bookclub, or something like that. If anyone knows her, give her a shout out for me, will ya?

Oh yeah, so…the link.

This is APPLE: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/the-bashful-courtesan/id6741929413

This is KOBO: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-bashful-courtesan

This is SMASHWORDS: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1708394

Those are just the ones that are up.

I’ve got this scheduled to go up MARCH 3rd.