Eva Pasco's Blog - Posts Tagged "decision-making"
The WRITE Decision
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Which is the WRITE way for me to go?
Having submitted the second electronic galley proof for my upcoming Women’s Fiction novel to my publisher, I anxiously await the final proof—forthcoming in a matter of days. While moonlighting many a night by the light o’ the moon, I’ve been pondering important decisions as to marketing and promoting ‘An Enlightening Quiche.’ Several judgement calls later, I hope I’ve made the WRITE decisions.
One such quandary for me: To go or forego Amazon’s KDP Select, whereby in exchange for giving Amazon exclusive 90-day use of your digital content, you receive 5 days of your choosing to make your digital content free, while getting paid for your eBook loaned through the Amazon Prime library—roughly $2.50 per lend.
That seemingly would cast a bright light on the program, especially if you price your digitally formatted book at $.99.
Now, casting dark shadows over the deal when making the WRITE decision for me:
1. I intend to price my Kindle Edition at $3.99, so $2.50 is less than what I’d earn from a 70 % royalty—assuming I’ll sell some!
2. You can’t offer your Kindle Edition anywhere else, paid or free, during the 90 days it’s enrolled in KDP Select. Not the worst deterrent for me, a virtually unknown indie author.
The real deal breakers for me?
Those who snare a book for FREE may just add it to their TBR list and never get to it in the slush pile of freebies.
Those who scoop up my eBook may not comprise my target market, so my book may not appeal to them. Uh oh! That portends lousy reviews based on reading preference. I’d rather take my chances with those who make a conscious decision to purchase my book.
The FREE feed frenzy for each 90-day KDP Select round has the potential to make it much harder to sell my book at its more-than-fair price of $3.99 for a 562-page novel when I’m not enrolled.
$3.99 for the Kindle Edition of a novel where the characters are sure to dwell within the reader’s heart long after the last page has been turned, sounds like a great deal to me, no matter how you slice a quiche!
Which is the WRITE way for me to go?
Having submitted the second electronic galley proof for my upcoming Women’s Fiction novel to my publisher, I anxiously await the final proof—forthcoming in a matter of days. While moonlighting many a night by the light o’ the moon, I’ve been pondering important decisions as to marketing and promoting ‘An Enlightening Quiche.’ Several judgement calls later, I hope I’ve made the WRITE decisions.
One such quandary for me: To go or forego Amazon’s KDP Select, whereby in exchange for giving Amazon exclusive 90-day use of your digital content, you receive 5 days of your choosing to make your digital content free, while getting paid for your eBook loaned through the Amazon Prime library—roughly $2.50 per lend.
That seemingly would cast a bright light on the program, especially if you price your digitally formatted book at $.99.
Now, casting dark shadows over the deal when making the WRITE decision for me:
1. I intend to price my Kindle Edition at $3.99, so $2.50 is less than what I’d earn from a 70 % royalty—assuming I’ll sell some!
2. You can’t offer your Kindle Edition anywhere else, paid or free, during the 90 days it’s enrolled in KDP Select. Not the worst deterrent for me, a virtually unknown indie author.
The real deal breakers for me?
Those who snare a book for FREE may just add it to their TBR list and never get to it in the slush pile of freebies.
Those who scoop up my eBook may not comprise my target market, so my book may not appeal to them. Uh oh! That portends lousy reviews based on reading preference. I’d rather take my chances with those who make a conscious decision to purchase my book.
The FREE feed frenzy for each 90-day KDP Select round has the potential to make it much harder to sell my book at its more-than-fair price of $3.99 for a 562-page novel when I’m not enrolled.
$3.99 for the Kindle Edition of a novel where the characters are sure to dwell within the reader’s heart long after the last page has been turned, sounds like a great deal to me, no matter how you slice a quiche!
Eva’s Byte #388 – Bridges Burning!
Whether the result of burning bridges is tantamount to cutting my nose to spite my face, or not, so be it! I’m not looking back toward the point of no return. Never have.
In my capacity of an Indie author, I unpublished two of my novels in the genre of Contemporary. To my dismay, they won’t “disappear” from the universe. For, when one unpublishes a book on Amazon, the book’s detail pages stay live, and third parties may still sell used copies of print books.
That mentioned—ready? A print copy of my first published novel, Underlying Notes (first printing, 2008) is available for $270.50!
The second novel I unpublished is my multi-award winning, An Enlightening Quiche (2016). It was cost prohibitive to pay IngramSpark to upload both a cover and interior file—again! All because they had purged the originals. Then, there was the annual $69.00 hosting fee charged by my publisher.
I’ll state this only once because I am no longer advertising the book: Anyone in the USA who wants a signed paperback, message me ($15.95 includes s/h) – 562 pgs.
For a while I was bumming about my dual choice of action. No more. After all, for the longest time, Harper Lee had only one published work to her name—a Pulitzer Prize winner, at that!
As for my current Contemporary work in progress:
I finished drafting chapter 19 (2092 words), and I’ve begun chapter 20 (479 word thus far)
*May the fire within each of us burn brightly to enkindle our dreams.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
In my capacity of an Indie author, I unpublished two of my novels in the genre of Contemporary. To my dismay, they won’t “disappear” from the universe. For, when one unpublishes a book on Amazon, the book’s detail pages stay live, and third parties may still sell used copies of print books.
That mentioned—ready? A print copy of my first published novel, Underlying Notes (first printing, 2008) is available for $270.50!
The second novel I unpublished is my multi-award winning, An Enlightening Quiche (2016). It was cost prohibitive to pay IngramSpark to upload both a cover and interior file—again! All because they had purged the originals. Then, there was the annual $69.00 hosting fee charged by my publisher.
I’ll state this only once because I am no longer advertising the book: Anyone in the USA who wants a signed paperback, message me ($15.95 includes s/h) – 562 pgs.
For a while I was bumming about my dual choice of action. No more. After all, for the longest time, Harper Lee had only one published work to her name—a Pulitzer Prize winner, at that!
As for my current Contemporary work in progress:
I finished drafting chapter 19 (2092 words), and I’ve begun chapter 20 (479 word thus far)
*May the fire within each of us burn brightly to enkindle our dreams.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
