I have to be honest with you. The sales of my spectacular novel, 5IVE SPEED, have been less than spectacular. It surprises me slightly, because everyone who reads it loves it and I haven't heard a discouraging word. And considering the ebook price is $2.99 nobody has mentioned having to save up for it or dipping into the kid's college fund. But what the heck. That's showbiz.

I figured it might be time to sweeten the pot. I'm going to be giving away Kindles. The only thing you have to do is buy 5IVE SPEED. If you make a couple reviews and comments, it increases your chances of getting a Kindle. I know you may already have a Kindle, but they make terrific Bar Mitzvah presents. To find out the details you just have to go to the Kindle Giveaway page on my website and it's all pretty straightforward and simple.

Hopefully I'll be giving away a bunch of them which wouldn't bother me in the least. It's really an "everybody wins" type situation. Oh…and I'd appreciate you all getting the word out about this as much as possible; whether it's on Facebook or Twitter or your blog or whatever. This is the kind of thing that needs to get around by word of mouth. I'm not expecting "viral" or anything, although that would be sweet, too.

They told me that self-publishing was going to be tough, and I'm seeing it now. But they also told me that if it's a great book it will do well and eventually sell itself. I'm ready for that to happen, but until this little baby gets legs of its own I'm going to need all the help I can get and I'm depending on you.

Oprah hasn't read it yet. Obviously, this is one of the problems. But until someone solves that and gets it into her reading hands, we're going to have to do it without Oprah's help.

Keep in touch with me as far as the help you're extending and I will personally thank you. I'm pretty good about those things. Let's see this little gem of mine take off.

And you might wind up with a free Kindle. Yay.