The other day I lost my cool.  I knew a couple of my friends had bought my novel, The Shattered Vase and I kept checking my sales report on Bookbaby and they had not given me the royalties for the sales.

In addition to that, I have run Facebook ad campaigns and the ads have been seen by over 17,000 people, had over 800 engagements and close to 650 link clicks and I saw not one sale from that.

I called and let them have it. So far the only sales I have seen are ones that I told them about and had the actual sales order number and date of sale.

Facebook ads are difficult to work with because you know that people are interested if they click on your link but only Facebook knows if that is a sale or not. Amazon is not much better, they have a book scan that you can look at on your author central page. One week I looked and it said I had 6 sales and the next week it said I had only four.

So, today I was working on my second book because, according to my publisher, my first book is not rocketing me to stardom. Meanwhile, I felt a little childish for throwing a temper tantrum with my publishers. I still don’t think they are honest but I have a plan and I will put that plan into motion when I gather enough evidence.

I was looking for verses related to hope and I started reading Psalms 39.

 I said to myself, “I will watch what I do
    and not sin in what I say.
I will hold my tongue
    when the ungodly are around me.”
² But as I stood there in silence—
    not even speaking of good things—
    the turmoil within me grew worse.
³ The more I thought about it,
    the hotter I got,
    igniting a fire of words:

Well, I figure if David lost his cool and God said he was a man after His own heart I may not be that bad.

For those of you who are looking for publishing companies, I withdraw my endorsement of Bookbaby for the time being.

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