You can find An Ordinary Fairy on Amazon.com, in both paperback print edition and ebook version for the Kindle. Under both listings you'll find four new reviews (as of today) so you can see what people are saying about the story.
A word on how author's make money - at least the vast majority of authors, not the mega-sales well-known authors that traditional publishers (and the public) fawn over. Before we can get any money for our books, we have to spend huge amounts of time writing, editing and proofing our work. I estimate An Ordinary Fairy required 1,800 hours to complete. Most publishers won't pay for a book up front to new authors - they pay a commission, or "royalties", on books actually sold. But those books are sold to bookstores, who have the right to return unsold copies, so the royalty payments are withheld for a long time.
At least, all that has been the traditional model for years. Things have changed in recent years. Technology now allows books to be printed one at a time, as ordered. And the Internet allows an author to market and sell books directly to readers.
I chose this second path for AOF. Faster, greener (no unsold books to destroy), and I make more money. I make the most money when I personally put a copy of the book in your hands. When you buy from CreateSpace, the publisher, I make less, but still a decent royalty. From Amazon, even less, but the book is more accessible. If a bookstore buys the book to stock and sell (highly unlikely to happen) I make a whopping 86 cents per copy.
So go to Amazon.com to read the reviews, and then go to my CreateSpace.com page to buy your copy (link is on the left).
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