LN: I decided not to spend my time trying to get it into stores around Phoenix where I live. iUniverse has an incredible distribution deal online that was the prime tool I knew I had to take advantage of. I highly doubt you could get a deal that vast if you were to actually "self-publish" by printing it yourself. It would be quite difficult. I thought it was more efficient to promote the book on the Internet, where the book was already available. I thought, "why should I spend time trying to get my book into stores locally when I have the whole country available to me?" Plus, the fact that if I did get the book in stores in my city, it would have to be on a consignment basis, which meant that I would only get 50 percent of the retail price if a book sold, which also meant I would lose money on every sale. It just didn't make sense to me when there's Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com ready and willing to sell my book. My plan was to sell the pants off of it, then Nina and I could take that information and try to sell a second book off of the success of the first.