For a long time I was the only one I knew that sold e-books. Ive been selling e-books for 7 decades , and when I would say "I sell e-books" at parties, everybody would barely understand what I was talking about for a long measure .

I was shocked when a mutual friend told me about Julie Fast, a woman with several successful e-book sites including bipolarhappens.com. As it turns out she does the same thing for a living as I--selling e-books, and lives right in the identical area.

When I met her in a Portland, Oregon cafe for the first measure , I stared at her like she was the "missing hyperlink". I couldnt believe I was seeing someone that had the identical career as I did: selling e-books.

We both shared observations about our Google Adwords and Overture campaigns; we we are both optimizing our customer service and electronic mail re-selling strategies. Having all these unique things in common was too nice to be true.

Julie and I have the lifestyle of selling e-books in common as well, and it is all too often a guilty pleasure. It means having instant time to do as you want to do, like writing that long put off card to a family member or friend. Or going to the dog park more commonly. It means having to explain to relatives that work three jobs that you are skipping off to yet another vacation destination. And that maybe they could write some successful e-books too.

Julie and I now meet in cafes, or at one of our homes so that we dont have to do our work alone. We share that we do not have to work at all, but work when we want to. Our websites and campaigns do most of the work for us.

I have found joy with my friend Julie Fast. We celebrated my birthday on the Oregon Coast--my cake had a big "E" on it. Weve recently started talking about e-books on the radio, teaching classes about e-books, and we even wrote a 100 page e-book together called Make A Living Selling E-Books.

Well I thought I would share our little story with others. Our lifestyle is too nice to keep all to ourselves.