Yesterday and today I published on Kindle and the Nook my 18th novel and 30th book, THE RED SQUAD. The Kindle was easy; it accepted my MS at once. The Nook took all of yesterday and part of today. It wouldn't accept my format. I reformatted this, I reformatted that, getting more and more furious in the process, but the electronic rejections kept coming, and I couldn't figure out why. I did curse a bit. I cursed over and over this modern electronic world we now live in. Finally I went to bed. I woke up this morning and the solution was in my head. Did I work on the problem all night in my sleep? We don't know much about the working of the human head, do we? This morning the MS went through on the first try. The book itself won't go on sale in either place for another day or two. Still, for an author that's instant publication. A hard cover book can take almost a year--by the time it comes out you've forgotten what was in it. Not the case here. I've been working on this one off and on for five or more years. For my own amusement I wrote a few stories, I wrote some poems, I lived the life of a country gentleman, and I kept polishing THE RED SQUAD. I'm not sure I ever wanted to let it go, as if it was money in the bank that I didn't want to spend. When it was gone there would be nothing more. Will there be anything more? I don't know.
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