AJ Adams - Dark, Messed-Up Romance and Crime

  It's a dark romance trope that the heroine is broken, but Solitaire, the heroine in Songbird, is nothing of the kind. A few words about how I created her, and why I love her. Tell me what you think. No spoilers, so you can watch safely. Buy link books2read.com/zeta2

Writing a series often involves taking minor characters from an early novel and turning them into major characters. Here's how I turned Arturo, the guy who's drinking a beer while his men are torturing someone in The Bonus, into a man you can (hopefully!) root for in Songbird. In February 2022, Songbird is on sale for $2.99; after this it goes up to $3.99. Google Play is currently extra cheap, https://books2read.com/zeta2    

 As promised, I'm dropping my prices for the second Zeta Cartel novel, Songbird, this month from 3.99 to 2.99. But when I went in and double-checked everything, I got a surprise: google Play books have discounted all my books . No notice, no information. It's just out there. Every single one of my books is being sold for RM10, that's 2.40. That has two impacts on me. First, money. For a 99 cent book, I make about 24 cents after taxes and platform fees (Amazon and Draft to Digital) but that's before the processing and bank fee. I think I get about 19 cents. At 3.99, I make about 90 cents before bank and processing fees, probably around 85 cents At 2.99, I make about 80 cents before bank and processing fees, probably around 75 cents At RM10 per book, that's 2.40 I make about, well, less than 75 cents, that's for sure. Maybe 65 cents? The second impact is emotional. Google is doing exactly the same as Amazon and all the other companies. They reserve the right to ch...