Not My Customer

I offer the first story
in one of my series
for free.
Readers have to pay for
the rest of the stories.

Yesterday, a reader
went on an impressive Facebook rant
about how writers who do this
are tricking their readers.
If the first story is free,
according to her,
ALL stories should be free.

Readers who want
everything for free
are NOT the readers
I’m interested in
attracting.

I simply said to myself,
“This isn’t my reader.”
I unfriended her
and moved on.

We won’t make
every customer happy.
We can’t.
What makes one customer happy
makes another customer unhappy.

Ignore the noise
from people
who aren’t your target customers.