Newby's Guide to Finding SROP Books in Your Local Library

Well, Indie Author Day is over. Our SROP books flew off the store shelves like hot pickled cockroaches. I'll tell you it was absolutely as exhausting as watching paint dry... So now we're back to hunkering down in solitude after that lack of hoopla.

Speaking of paint... Many years ago, I remember reading, in one of those slick magazines like OMNI or Smithsonian, a full-page print advertisement for an automobile. It wasn't just any car, it was a very exclusive, hand-made sports car. The kind they don't make on an assembly line, but lovingly put together piece by piece, one car at a time. And their annual production run was limited to the low double-digits. (Needless to say, as I vaguely recall, the price tag matched what you might imagine for such a fine machine.) The advert touted the car's fine features, gorgeously layered paint job, et cetera... And it ended with something to the effect of when your friends ask where they can get one, you tell them they probably can't.

That's kind of like the Smashed-Rat-on-Press business model, except that rather than appealing to rare people who like to show off their pocket books as thick as the Eiffel Tower, we appeal to the kind of ruggedly independent (but possibly unbalanced) reader who might go for a hike in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Just imagine those photos on your Facebook page! Better yet, just imagine those SROP volumes on your bookshelf...

Wait wait... Did you believe the click-bait headline about finding SROP books in a library? ;-) Sorry.

Heh heh. Follow the bread crumbs. And don't forget your rad suit.