BESTSELLERS & BEST FRIENDS
My book publishing blog, with murder mysteries woven through it.
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OK, I must admit. I’m having a difficult time not thinking about Roscoe and his stupid mysteries.
As I predicted, every publishing house had zilch interest in publishing the sick bastard. And that’s the end of that.
Or, it would have been, in the good old days.
With no publishing house to PAY to print the book, to PAY for cartons in which to pack those books, to PAY for trucks to ship those books, to PAY for warehouses to store them, to PAY sales reps to sell them, and on and on, the book would simply never get published.
But alas, there’s self-publishing nowadays. And Roscoe is self-publishing his stupid Phil Duffy mystery series through Amazon’s self-publishing service, CreateSpace.
I made a martini (actually two). I needed gin’s help to do what I was about to do.
Here goes. Martini near to my right, laptop in my lap, I take a deep breath and look at Amazon’s listing for the first Phil Duffy mystery.
It’s #1 in Amazon’s “mystery and thriller” category.
It’s the second best-selling self-published book in the country.
And the reviews for it on Amazon are all five stars, readers love it.
God, I hate this industry.
Tomorrow: I start a blog about the hardwood floor business