A Writer's Life: Mr. Monk and the Kindle

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The Amazon Kindle blog is featuring a post from Natalie Teeger today promoting MR. MONK AND THE DIRTY COP. Here's an excerpt:

The other day, Monk didn't have a case to work on and I didn't relish the idea of spending the day sitting around his house sorting out imperfect Wheat Chex from his boxes of breakfast cereal ("It will be fun," he said. "You'll feel like a kid again."). Instead, I talked him into going to this revival theatre in Haight-Asbury that was showing classic Hitchcock movies. Monk insisted on bringing a plastic seat cover because there was no way he was sitting on something a thousand other people had sat on before him. He also brought disinfectant and delousing spray. And gloves. And baggies to put his gloves in. And gloves to handle the baggies with the gloves in them. It wasn't easy getting all that stuff past the ticket-taker, but I flashed a smile and a little cleavage (very little...I don't have much to spare) and we got in. Once we were in the theatre, Monk had to sit dead center in an even-numbered seat. Luckily, the center seat wasn't an odd number or he might have asked me to move the entire row. Just when I thought we were home free, the movie turned out to be "The 39 Steps." The title alone was enough to drive Monk out of the theatre. But we stayed. It was everyone else who fled, irritated by his incessant whining about the title of the movie and the fact he gave away the whodunit it in the first five minutes.

The blog was sent to every Kindle owner this morning. It should be interesting to see if my Kindle numbers pop on DIRTY COP and, hopefully, THE WALK as well.

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Oh, no, no Kindle. Alas... I'll make do with the excerpt for now.

Posted by: Janet Rudolph | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 01:14 PM

Good luck with the Kindle Tease. Maybe if you give a hint to nudity in the story, more people will download.

Patricia

Posted by: Patricia Stewart | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 07:47 PM

It certainly made a difference. DIRTY COP was in the top 10 Mystery/Thrillers on the Kindle for much of the day and under #300 in overall rank. This morning it's #371 in Kindle Books and #51 in Mystery/Thrillers.

Posted by: Lee Goldberg | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 07:25 AM

Lee, how did you get this feature posted on the Amazon Kindle blog? Is it paid advertising?

Posted by: Jim | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 05:16 PM

Nope, it was free. Amazon invited me to blog about DIRTY COP...and they will soon be featuring THE WALK on the "exclusive to the Kindle" page.

Lee

Posted by: Lee Goldberg | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 09:37 PM

Do you know if any DRM-free eBook publishers are carrying it? Already have the Hardback and the MP3 Audiobook, but curious to see if I could get the next Monk book in eBook format instead of dead-tree.

Posted by: Matt Lee | Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 09:00 AM

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