So yesterday I finally got my book onto Kindle Unlimited.\u00a0 Huzzah!!!<\/p>\n
An then I waited.\u00a0 And I waited.\u00a0 And I waited.\u00a0 A day later the page counter for KENP stood at zero.\u00a0 This seemed unpromising.\u00a0 So, I closed down the laptop and did something else.<\/p>\n
I took a juvenile milk snake that I found hiding under the famous copper sheet and shot a photo shoot of his best profile.\u00a0 And then we had lunch and worked on some other projects.\u00a0 I put an air conditioning unit in one of the windows and I started weeding the raspberry patch and I helped clean some kind of ooze that had accumulated on the new fish pond.<\/p>\n
And when I checked the KENP after all that, the counter was at one!\u00a0 Now that\u2019s not one book that\u2019s one page.\u00a0 So, if a book pays me forty cents what does a page earn me?\u00a0 Well, you can do the math.\u00a0 If the book is about two hundred and fifty-two pages long then that page is worth 0.15873 cents in cold hard cash.\u00a0 If Jeff Bezos took a penny and a pair of tin snips (zinc snips?) and did some rudimentary trigonometric calculations he could probably nip off an arc from the edge of the coin that would somewhat represent this hefty sum.\u00a0 So, I shut down the laptop again and began to recalibrate my plans to purchase that summer home on Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n
I began reading some more of \u201cDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.\u201d\u00a0 You know this PKD is a very talented writer but I don\u2019t think he spent a lot of his life smiling.\u00a0 In fact, I think WWIII was probably one of the lighter topics he thought about.\u00a0 He\u2019s got the extinction of most animal species, widespread human chromosomal damage, widespread human brain damage and bizarre religious tendencies as the window dressing of his highly depressed main characters.\u00a0 After a little of this I decided to take a break.\u00a0 Apparently, this wasn\u2019t going to be Harrison Ford and Daryl Hannah.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be a lot less chirpy.\u00a0 So, I got in touch with the First Selectman and arranged a special meeting to discuss my succession plan as his special assistant in charge of burying the bodies.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the committee was unable to locate anyone stupid enough to agree to the position.\u00a0 I came home a few hours later and checked my KENP counter.\u00a0 It was seventeen pages.\u00a0 That\u2019s 2.6984 cents.\u00a0 Well!\u00a0 Now we\u2019re getting somewhere.\u00a0 At this rate I\u2019ll be able to afford my favorite Dunkin Donuts donut (an old fashioned) by Fall.<\/p>\n
And I think my addition to the Kindle Unlimited rolls has netted me my first troll.\u00a0 He was pretending to be a fairly successful non-fiction author but was unaware that he wasn\u2019t supposed to be a fiction author so his answers didn\u2019t track with that.\u00a0 I brought this to his attention and he started making incoherent sentences.\u00a0 Well, what can you do?\u00a0 Now that I\u2019m on the road to fame and fortune everyone wants a piece of me.\u00a0 J K Rowlings eat your heart out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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