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The business of publishing your own work through Print on Demand is a slow process for most of us. As well as writing something worthwhile, and then editing it til your eyes cross, there is the business of getting people of consequence, or maybe even just the teenager next door, to read it and make enthusiastic comments you can add to the back cover or to promotional material. I have reached that stage at least, at last, with both Dolphin Singers and Greenstone's Promise. Looking for first take readers who will point the way to the (thousands??) to follow. Easier said than done. So few people, alas, make time for reading anymore, and many young people in particular with the endless buffet of distraction available to them, seem to have placed novel reading very low on their list of attractive choices.  I asked a friend with teens if they might like to sample the wares and she responded with enthusiasm. Something they could all do at the family vacation cottage.  I signed with relief and sent the links to both draft volumes where they currently reside in the cloud and waited. And waited. At last, when hope had gone, and it was clear that other activities had claimed all the time at the cabin, I got an enthusiastic response.  it was not the teens who responded. It was her mother, a teacher of many years experience, who actually called me up to leave a long message saying how much she  loved it.When I called back, she agreeably sent a blurb to be added to the back and now I await, in fact, the feedback of the teen next door. A young reader who I know will actually finish the book, for she is one who has learned the delight of reading and all the places it can take you that even motion pictures and certainly 140 character tweets cannot.  If any of you, dear readers, would like to take this on and send add your pre-publication feedback, please contact me at cesca.hampton@gmail.com. I'll send you the links as well.