Here is another thing Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has done for me: it has given me the gift of time, or rather, freedom as an author from the slavery of time. When a printed book is published people need to be paid: the printer, editors, publicists, agents (not to mention the author). The book has three weeks to get noticed and "take off''' much like a racehorse--otherwise it is out of the race. Everyone loses interest; everyone loses money. The author loses credibility. Not so with the KDP e-book. It is more like a seed. There is time for the rays of reader interest to reach into infinite soil of e-space and e-time and to slowly grow and find the happy warmth of a glowing audience. The audience for the book can grow at its own pace without the need of the book being unnaturally pushed forth with hypered advertising. In one month I have sold only six books and yet I am thrilled. No "real" publisher would be thrilled with me. Yet I know I have written a very good book, a book of wonders, The Black Butterfly Woman. A very good seed. And I am granted the gift of time and freedom from time for that good little seed to grow into a beautiful tree that stands on its own deep roots from which it was drawn. It can take six months or six years for it to reach the sunlight. That is a great gift. I thank KDP for this small private space from which I now reach out to the world of e-reading people.