"Just In Time" -- Out Now On Amazon Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AJCB8Q4

If you have Amazon Prime, borrow it from the Kindle Library. If not, give it a try anyway, you can always return it for a refund.

How do you return kindle books for refund? I mean I don't mind giving you your cut if I buy it, but I'm curious on a more general level, because I didn't know you could do that.

Also, do you have a longer synopsis? The two sentence one makes it sound fairly interesting, but I wouldn't mind a bit more info to help decide what level of priority to give it on my way too long list of books I need to read.

Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book. To request a refund and return, visit Manage Your Kindle, click the actions tab for the title you'd like to return, and select "Return for refund."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200144510

Also it has a free sample if you don't want to borrow it through Amazon Prime.

I'll read the sample later and let you know what I think.

There's a sample?

Save for printing it out and using it as bog roll at a later date, I should like to give a genuine consideration of Daniel's prose.

Sample downloaded!

Well read it......

$7.99? No. Way too much. At .99 cents or even $1.99 I might go for it since I'm always looking for new things. If I liked your book then I might be willing to pay more for future books which is what I do with most Kindle authors now.

And honestly there is one stumbling block.......

I couldn't get you, or rather your face, out of my head because the way it reads you yourself are that main character.

This may not be a problem for other people who read the sample chapter and don't know you like we do at Wordforge.

$7.99?! That's not what I set it at! The hell?! Okay, now I have to go bitch at Amazon. Or at my fingers for hitting the wrong damn key. It was supposed to be $1.99.

Well, right now, it's 0.00 (you save 7.99!).

Yeah, Amazon won't let me sell it for less than $2.99. Which is not as low as I wanted to sell it at.

EDIT: And every time I try to change the price, I get an "unexpected error." Sure.

EDIT 2: On the other hand, 46 copies have gone out on the free promo, which should generate word of mouth as well as a share of the KDP Select funding.

Oh, and by the way -- the ZERO dollars and ZERO cents price it's at right now is a promotion. So for a limited time, it's absolutely FREE.

In order to sell it at $1.99 or .99 cents you have to take the 35% royalty option.

I've downloaded a full copy.

And how did they put it on a promo? Are you selling it anywhere else which is giving it away free?

I'm the one who put it on a limited-time free promotion, to get it out there and circulating. I'm not making it available anywhere else. Bigger stuff I will, but not this title. And again, it wasn't supposed to cost $7.99, that was my dumb fingers transposing the 7 and the 1 on the keyboard.

I was going to complain about the price, now I don't have to. That makes 47 copies.

And the fun part is, I still get paid for all 47 copies. Such is the power of a "free promotion" -- I still get paid from the KDP Select fund as if each one was sold at full price.

Still, and no foolin', I do hope everyone who has borrowed and/or bought a copy has enjoyed it.

how do you know how many copies have gone out? I still don't know and mine has been available since March.

Go to KDP and select "Reports" then "Last six weeks" for the most recent sales/lends.

Why are there 12 entries on Amazon's "John Castle page" when only one of them was written by John Castle?

remember that amazon needs to make a profit, even off a book that should only be 1.99

I honestly couldn't say. I don't know which page you're referring to specifically.

Click on the author's "name" and it takes you to a page listing other works by John Castle. Some are short story collections, presumably you were a contributor? Others seem to have no possible connection to either you or the actor with the same name.

It is because he has no bio page as an author so it automatically does a search for anything John and/or Castle. Several of the books have authors with the last name Castle in them. And the rest have someone with a first name of John.

If you look at other books most of them have next to the authors name a little box. If you click on that box another box opens to go to the bio page. Clicking directly on the authors name will do a search for that name and you will get all results with that name even if it isn't that author.

I clicked on Garamets name and only her books popped up on Amazon. No other books and she doesn't have a bio page. The reason is that her name is unique. There is no other author on Amazon with her middle and last name and her first name is spelled differently then other authors with similar names.

The reason he can't sell it for less then $2.99 is because he chose the wrong royalty option.

He will have to go back after the free promo period and change it.

That's what I figured. Just wanted to draw his attention to it.

Their internal search engine is buggy. In the early days I spent a lot of time messaging them to try to get them to spell my name correctly (it's easy to get the "n"s mixed up).

So I've fixed the price. It will be $1.99 when the free promo expires.

And now it's up for sale at the price I intended to sell it at, $1.99. Now, I realize that the content isn't what most on WF would consider to be blockbuster stuff. Femdom short stories aren't -- and never will be -- everybody's cup o' tea.

That said, I hope that I at least wrote it well. The publisher I write this stuff for regularly can't say enough good about the writing quality. I never trust that. I never trust reviewers who never have any complaints.

And I know that nobody can nitpick and liquid-shit on my writing like WF can. So shit away. I need to see where the holes are. And if there aren't any? Well, damn. Guess I actually did do a good job.

For sure it wasn't my cup of tea. Just finished reading it.

Got to say I'm glad I got it free. Nothing wrong IMHO with the writing just the story was to far out there......

This was very much my reaction, too. There were some editing issue here and there, which you'll get with any self-published works, but mostly the voice and pacing worked. The story itself, though, well let's just say it might have appealed to me 30 years ago, but no more.