I agree. The offer has passed. They and I both stuck to our guns. You value what you pay for. $7.10 was neither profitable to me not unreasonable to them. I'm a little disappointed, but that life.

We've created a monster with all the "promotional" pricing out there. People download all the free and 99 cent books and they expect either freebies or discounts on everything. I'm sure most of the cheap stuff that gets picked up sits on people's Kindle libraries but never gets read. The real cost of a book is the time necessary to read it, and for any book worth that time, the monetary cost, even for a top of the line, conventionally published book at $29.99, is trivial. As authors, we all know the time and effort necessary to produce our work. My mom said to my sister in a completely different context: "If you give it away they won't appreciate it." Get paid for your work.

That's awesome. My understanding is book readings are very helpful. They lead to more book readings. Eventually that leads to a radio interview, that will lead to larger book readings.

My understanding is it's common for a book to be out for a while before getting widespread notice. It's uncommon for the first book to be a huge hit immediately. If you get on interviews with this one, maybe the second or third will get mainstream national coverage.

Also, I've heard most people who think it's pretty good won't review it. People offended by it in some way will review it. That means if reviews are running 50/50 for and against, the vast majority likes it.

I'm excited for more people to get to read your book.

Only that they came across it on Amazon.

Very cool! Congrats. Did they mention how they heard of Seashells?

Alright!!

YES!