This thing was free, but now it’s not. This other thing wasn’t free, but now it is!

Hi there, Trout Nation! I have some updates to Trout Nation pricing of things!

First, the thing that was free and no longer is: The Boss is no longer a free ebook. This isn’t the exciting ten year anniversary news, by the way. Back when I first published The Boss as an ebook, I said that it would always be free. And I believe that it’s that strategy that kept the book alive for so long, to be perfectly frank. As of this morning, it was ranked fiftieth in BDSM Erotica on Amazon. It actually had an unbroken streak of like eight years before it dropped out of the top one hundred in that category.

But every decade or so, I do a reset. When I published The Boss, I was pretty sure my career was over. I was in the mindset that I needed to beg people to read my books, that I didn’t deserve to have someone read them, and I certainly didn’t deserve to be paid for them. Now, ten years later… fuck that. I love that book, I’ve loved giving it away, but I’d also love to make some money on it. When I first posted it on Amazon, I told everyone to wait until KDP got with the program and made it free there, as it was free on all other platforms. I’d priced it ninety-nine cents.

In the two months prior to the change taking effect, I made $20k off that book at that price. And I turned that tap off because I made a promise to readers that it would be free, a move that pretty much everyone in my life disagreed with. I’m not regretting that choice or kicking myself now for honoring that promise, but I do think that after ten years, it’s okay for me to make a couple bucks off the book.

TL;DR, I’m proud of The Boss, I no longer feel people are doing me a massive favor by tolerating my prose, and I’m changing the price of it. I think it’s worth $3.99. I think it’s worth $9.99 but let’s not get too excited, here. It’s $3.99.

Second, the thing that no longer costs money?

You’re going to want to sit down for this.

As you may have noticed, the Crave recaps have ground to a halt. You guys, the book is so boring. But you know what’s not boring? I mean, the book is boring, it’s very, very boring, but it’s not boring to hate-read it?

A Court of Thorns and Roses.

My Patreon patrons voted to see the previously patrons-only recaps of A Court of Thorns and Roses posted here on the main blog. The poll is still open until tonight, but at this point there is no way for the Patrons who haven’t voted to overcome the thus-far unanimous votes in favor of sharing those recaps with everybody here. Reasons given were that it’s easier to read posts on the blog than trying to navigate the Patreon interface, and people want to have a free resource to direct their ACOTAR-loving friends to in the vain hopes that an in-depth examination of the book will somehow knock loose something in their brains and make them see reason.

Another big plus? They’re already written, so they can be posted regularly and not at the whim of the truly weird streak of luck I’ve had for the past few years. Those recaps will start as soon as I figure out what’s happening with this weird medical thing I’ve got going on that… you know. My luck.

Reminder: I’m still recapping The Missus on YouTube, and a new chapter will post today (good lord willing and the internet don’t suck), and over on Patreon we’re reading Modelland, which has turned, at least, to me, from a hate-read to a lovefest. And as always, you can find My Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend and Taken by The Alpha King on the Yonder and Radish apps respectively.