{"id":3100,"date":"2013-03-24T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2013-03-24T09:39:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T13:39:46","slug":"are-you-ready-for-some-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/24\/are-you-ready-for-some-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready For Some Magic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QA fans - get ready. \u00a0We're only a week away from spreading some magic.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, peeps, \"A Magical Forever\" -the sequel to my \"Forever Series\" - Peter's story, \u00a0will be available everywhere on Easter Sunday, March 31st. \u00a0I enrolled the book in KDP Select, mainly to try the program for myself, and see if I could benefit from some of those paid \"borrows.\" \u00a0In Select, whenever a Kindle Prime member borrows your book, the reader gets to read it free and the writer gets paid for the borrow. \u00a0In exchange for participating, the writer has to make the book free for the 90-day term. \u00a0My term is up 3\/30 and I'll start uploading the book to all the other retailers.<\/p>\n<p>So, was it worth it? \u00a0Would I do it again? \u00a0No.<\/p>\n<p>Don't get me wrong, I love Amazon and the Kindle. \u00a0I'm a dedicated owner of the first version of the device - haven't sprung for the new one yet. \u00a0I may let them get down the road another generation or so before I do that. \u00a0But I do love my Kindle. \u00a0And I'm a Prime member - but - you know what? \u00a0I rarely \"borrow\" a book. \u00a0At first, I used my borrow every month but then life - and my writing - got in the way. \u00a0Perhaps the same is true for other Kindle owners, because I had many, many more sales than borrows.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I do price my work to be affordable. \u00a0\"Magical\" is priced at only $3.99. \u00a0 At that price, all my readers can pick up the book for less than they'd spend for a burger combo at most fast food joints. \u00a0And the love and joy of \"Magic\" will warm your soul for a lot longer than that Big Mac will fill your tummy.<\/p>\n<p>Y'all get your buying fingers ready -- next week a big ole dose of magic is headed your way!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QA fans - get ready. \u00a0We're only a week away from spreading some magic. Yes, peeps, \"A Magical Forever\" -the sequel to my \"Forever Series\" - Peter's story, \u00a0will be available everywhere on Easter Sunday, March 31st. \u00a0I enrolled the book in KDP Select, mainly to try the program for myself, and see if I <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/24\/are-you-ready-for-some-magic\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Are You Ready For Some Magic?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}