Good news and a good solution

One writer was nice enough to inform me that her agent had gotten the deep-discount clause removed from her contracts. It is great to hear that the clause is negotiable. I urge every writer to look for this clause in all future contracts. As incentive, here are the total sales of one of my books at deep and regular discount for the last four royalty periods. (Translation, sales that earned a maximum of 20 cents per book vs. sales that earned 48 cents.) Dec. 2009: 19,372 vs. 1,239. June,...