In reply to lynelle.

Thanks, Lynelle! Yeah, there’s a new book out. It’s been more fun to “watch people read” the thing than I’d expected–though Amazon’s ability to monitor pages read does strike me as creepy–and it’s inspired me to write more. Longer stuff, though, since readers seem to strongly prefer novels over short stories.

(Personally, I enjoy writing short stories–something new every few days! But some of my stories have yet to see a single sale or “borrow” on Amazon and none of them have done well.)

Not sure how I got on that topic. Thanks for coming by, though. {8’>

David! I’ve been wondering where all of your blogs are! And here’s one, dang, I’m a happy camper now.

I’ll read it, but as of this moment, I’ve been out of the loop while it looks that you’ve written something, a book or something — sorry, but one of your fans (me) is a little slow, but definitely glad to hear you’re thriving!! I like that, you deserve it big-time!

lpaulick

In reply to rebecca.

Well, thanks for letting me (and other people!) know what you thought of it. I was wondering whether you’d like the thing once I finally published it…beta readers, at least, were pretty polarized about the ending.

As for payment, it’s sort of weird. At one point I got paid whenever somebody both borrowed a book and read past the 10% sample size, regardless of the length of the book or story. Amazon’s switched things around so now I get paid per page (or “Kindle Edition Normalized Page,” whatever that is). But it means I have no direct way to know how many “borrows” have happened…and yet Amazon’s still using the borrows to determine the book’s so-called Sales Rank. Clearly I don’t know what I’m doing, though, because TS’s sales rank has dropped off a cliff in both the US and the UK ever since I raised the price–even though my “pages read” total is trending upward. So I’m going to shrug and leave it alone while thinking of something else. {8’>

BTW, I loved it. You know I hated it to end. I’m an Amazon Unlimited member and I don’t ever really look at prices when choosing a book. So do you get paid per page read or any time your work is “borrowed”?

Glad you’ll be writing again.