Consenting Adults Only was accepted into the Amazon Kindle Scout Program, and the first 5000 words are now available for reading.

The link is

https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/2PN5FY0XBJRS

Here's the way the program works.

During the 30-day campaign people can nominate the book for publication (through Sept 5, 2015).  Nominations, plus Amazon's own internal review, will decide if Kindle will publish the book.  If it is published by Amazon Kindle the author gets an advance, plus royalties on both the Kindle version and the audiobook. The author keeps the paperback rights.

I had to sign an agreement to these terms before submitting the book.  However, it's not a bad deal, considering the fate of most self-published books.  Of course, you have to have a good book to begin with, with broad appeal.  I think Consenting Adults Only fills that requirement. 

For more on this one year-old program, see http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/27/amazon-kindle-scout/

I found one author's comments about the Kindle Scout program closely reflecting my own, including about self-promotion.  Polly Iyer is a self-published author whose book, Indiscretion, was accepted for publication by Amazon Kindle this past June (current link at https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/3GQQOWLUFNS5C). 
Had Iyer's Indiscretion not been accepted, she would have self-published it.

Her comments (before she knew the book would be accepted) are on Marilyn Meredith's blog.
http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/2015/06/indiscretion-on-amazons-kindle-scout.html

There are so many great books turned down by agents and publishers (or not even looked it, with computerized rejection), that the situation is somewhat comical.  Search in Google for self-published best sellers and you find web sites like these:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronald-h-balson/bestseller-success-storie_b_4064574.html

and
 
www.parapublishing.com/files/.../155-Self-Published%20Books.pdf
 
If Consenting Adults Only is not published by Amazon Kindle, I will proceed to self-publish it in e-book and paperback formats.  (This will be my 15th book and 4th novel.)  The first 10 people who email me a request will get a free copy of the paperback when it does come out (though may be several months from now).

Larry Martin, MD
drlarry437@gmail.com