I'm Conflicted..., But Do You Wanna Buy an Ebook?

, and how I published it through a company called Blurb. Like any good self-published and control freak author, I have gone back and done a little work on the book, adding some new content, changing the cover art, rearranging pictures--making it available as an ebook on your iPad or iPhone.

Yes, you read that correctly. Blue Like the Sky is now available as an iBook for $4.99.

I know not everyone has an iPad, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of folks have an iPhone. Regardless of which device you use, you can download my book to your iBooks and read me wherever you go!

And, no, that link won't take you to the iTunes Bookstore. It'll be at least two weeks before the book appears there. But it's coming.

I'm a little fuzzy on this whole selling books thing, mainly because in just writing a couple of the sentences in this blog I've felt extremely narcissistic and self-aggrandizing. My ambition has always been to write and sell books, and hopefully be good enough to sell lots of books, but there's just something in the self-promotion that feels creepy. Vaguely wrong. Immoral, even.

I know that all authors have to sell themselves if they want to make it, and nobody will buy what they don't know is available, I suppose. But I guess for me, I don't want to promote my stuff too much for the fear that people will resent the promotion and take it out on the book. And I'm really proud of Blue Like the Sky. It's not groundbreaking in any literary sense, but it's an honest walk through a man's death with that man's family. There may be people who need this book, and I don't want to turn them off.

So here's where I find myself. I'll keep the link to my bookstore active, and I'll let you know when the book is available in the iTunes Bookstore, but beyond that, I'm not going to mention this much, if any, again. If you like the work, you like the work. I would achieve greater satisfaction as an author in knowing that whatever books I sell come from people thinking enough of the work to recommend it to someone else, and so on. And if you enjoy enough to recommend it to a friend, hopefully you'll enjoy it enough to write a rec on the website. But I'm not going to push.

I'm happy just knowing that my family has been blessed by the book, and knowing that 10 or 12 of you have been too. Everything else beyond that is gravy.

Thanks for reading--you are an encouragement to me. All the best to you.