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By Tricia Leslie lishing feature on Amazon.com, and My Cloverdale resident and author Martin Temporary Life was published late last Crosbie is learning just how rewarding year. When Amazon offered a February proself-publishing can be, after phenomenal motion that would feature his book for sales in February through mega online shopping site Amazon and other online free, Crosbie took advantage. “Then things went crazy. The e-book sources. Crosbie has always enjoyed writing and (version) went through the roof ... 51,497 people went for the free promo,” he said. has many journals from his “The next day (Feb. 12), it travel and life experiences, was the most downloaded ebut found it hard to free up rare spare time to write. “Then things went book in North America.” Since then, it has ranked While he works full-time crazy. The eBook in the Top 10 on most of as general sales manager at went through the Amazon’s charts – including Kustom Koach RV in Alderthe bestseller chart, coming grove, he decided to get back roof.” in just above popular novto writing. He took a writing course a few years ago and - Martin Crosbie el-turned-movie The Help – and was number seven started working on My Temon indiereader.com’s overall porary Life in earnest. bestseller chart as well. After several revisions, Crosbie confesses he Crosbie submitted his fictional story, “a thought there would be much less interest romance-suspense-coming-of-age book,” to several publishers and agents. More when the promotion ended and people had to pay for his book. than 100 of them. “I thought there might be a few (purHe was turned down. chases) the next morning,” he said. Every time. Discouraged but not defeated, Crosbie See NOVELIST / Page 3 decided to take advantage of a self-pub-
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