Now is the time to tell of a couple of mistakes I made. I wrote a caper novel, a humorous telling of crime and mayhem. I loved the characters and what they were able to accomplish by fighting crime with crime. I titled it KIDNAP.org. 

That was a mistake. Do you know what a computer does with a title like that? I do now. A search for it takes you to sites for human trafficking, not to fun little books about righteous rascals. I suppose I could do something about it, like change the title, but that's not easy. Plus, it would probably make some of my readers angry. They'll see the new title, think it's a new book, and spend hard-earned cash only to find that they read it years ago.

My other mistake was with the cover. I hired a cover artist (because all the experts say you should), and she provided the cover pictured below. It was cute, and I didn't think about it much, but when I went out to sell the book, people took one look and decided it was YA. Doesn't that cover bring Scooby Doo to mind? Luckily, the cover artist was nice about it and did a new one that's much more representative of the story.

The characters in this book were so much fun that I wrote a second and a third story about them, again with an arc for the group as a whole. They never intended to turn criminal, and they don't mean to keep it up forever. They're just writing wrongs as they see them.

KIDNAP.org is about an organization formed, pretty much accidentally, by an odd group of people who are sick of the rich and powerful having their way to the detriment of average folks. It's funny, it's wild, but it's oh, so satisfying! This book is available here for free.