{"id":2421,"date":"2013-04-01T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2013-04-01T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:46:51","slug":"free-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2421","title":{"rendered":"Free Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went slinking back to Amazon with my tail between my legs. Six weeks after leaving the KDP Select program my Amazon sales have not recovered, and I only sold a couple books through Barnes &#038; Noble and Apple. Suspicious as I am of Amazon&#8217;s monopolistic market position, I&#8217;ve been forced to conclude that for me right now they&#8217;re the only meaningful game in town. And I need the extra exposure that the Select program offers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as an extra bit of promotion, I packaged up a previously-published short story as an e-file (sneaking in an ad for my novel at the back) and stuck it up on Amazon. It&#8217;ll be free for the next few days and 99 cents thereafter.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BGV3IQU\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00BGV3IQU&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=shannphill-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Ah9dtXGdL._SL160_.jpg\" ><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So if you want a free short story, go on and grab it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went slinking back to Amazon with my tail between my legs. Six weeks after leaving the KDP Select program my Amazon sales have not recovered, and I only sold a couple books through Barnes &#038; Noble and Apple. Suspicious as I am of Amazon&#8217;s monopolistic market position, I&#8217;ve been forced to conclude that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}