The other face of autumn in New England

Raining and chilly today, temperatures in the 40s F (7 C +/-). Couple of inches of rain so far, with flood watches and warnings spread throughout the state. I think I shall vegetate in front of some TV football games.

On royalty statements

Received the twice-yearly statement from the Nice Agent Lady today. You people need to buy more books -- WINTER OAK hasn't earned out its advance yet. On the other hand, I find it somewhat frightening that over 20,000 copies of SUMMER COUNTRY are floating around out there....

And the Penguin-Putnam business model for E-books totally eludes me. They've priced the electronic versions exactly the same as a trade paperback, $14.00 for a bunch of intangible bits and bytes. No wonder they've sold a grand total of less than 40 copies in the three formats.