November’s Almost Done
Well, only a couple of days left so I’d thought I reveal the sales thus far. November Sales: The Troll Hunter–Two. No Experience Necessary—Four. The Missing Boatman—Eighteen. Compared to last month’s sales, all titles have doubled. Not bad. I’ve earned (straightens up) $23.50 in royalties, or about $17 after taxes have been paid. Ah, the […]
Abominable
Still setting up reviews as well as trying to arrange a little advertising. It’s almost the end of the month and the number of sales is… modestly up. I’ll tell you how many in roughly two weeks. I’m happy with the increase, but there is a still a lot to do. Promotion is a constant […]
Another Week
Signed on to Goodreads.com this week and I’m setting myself up there. The Troll Hunter was also featured on kindleboards.com book of the day, and I contacted a few more site regarding reviews. Thus far, The Troll Hunter has been disappointing in sales, and I hope that the new cover and ad will do something […]
New Covers and Book Promo
New covers have now been given to “The Troll Hunter” and “The Missing Boatman.” The cover for THH was inspired by a TerryR (from Kindleboards) and tinkered with by my buddy Mark. The cover for TMB was done by Diane Whiddon, who is also the creator of the website here. I like the new covers, […]
Like Glacial Ice…
Things are moving. For the month of October, when I went live, I posted three books. “The Troll Hunter,” “No Experience Necessary –Teach English Overseas,” and “The Missing Boatman,” which were priced $2.99, $4.99, and .99 as a Halloween special. I shall now give you the total units per title sold… The Troll Hunter– One […]
The week before Halloween…
And I feel good. In the last seven days, I contacted the following sites for review requests. http://sfbook.com/ www.thebestreviews.com http://www.simegen.com/reviews/columns/midnight/ http://www.all-review.co.uk/ And even got replies back from some. Reviews take a while though, and there are a lot of people looking to get them out there. And these folks who read the books, well, I […]
Week Three
For “The Troll Hunter,” I found and contacted seven more indie books sites as well as one not so indie, as per my limiting myself to working on promotions for just an hour a day. Still waiting for replies from some. Got responses from others (noted below), and it’ll take a couple of months for […]
Game on
Well. “The Troll Hunter” went live a few days ago, and I’ve been busy with self promotion. I have something of a “blitz and pray” marketing plan, with each unit sold having a link to my website. I spend an hour every day, searching and looking at the web, and signing up for ebook sites […]
It’s official
“The Troll Hunter” is now on sale at Amazon for the low price of $2.99 (overseas is 4.99). So now, from here on in, this experiment in self publishing is happening. I’m going to try and do self-promotion on the net as much as possible, and keep an eye on the sales (if any) for […]
Getting Closer
Okay. So, I’ve been trying to learn the basics here, and pretty much convinced myself that I might be better off leaving it to the professionals. Trouble is… I’m a right stubborn bastahd. I managed to place a link–my first link–to Kate’s website on my blog page here. Trouble happened when I tried to rearrange […]