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November 15, 2015
Kindle Unlimited: Global Expansion and Impact
Amount paid for pages read with Kindle Unlimited goes down by another 5%. It will be interesting to see where this ends.
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Image from ShutterStock.
Amazon’s payment for Kindle Unlimited KENP pages read has dipped a hair below $0.005 per page.
There is a downward trend for KENP pages read, although is a reason behind the most recent dip, and, as we shall see, there may be good signs to offset this trend.
July, 2015: $0.0...
November 11, 2015
Changes for #WIPpet Wednesday, and a brief update
For Nanowrimo, I have temporarily set aside the second and third books of The Glassmakers Trilogy and turned to a prequel to The Pendragon Chronicles, Ygerna. Just for fun and inspiration, before starting it, I slapped together a cover:
I wasn’t actually intending to use it for publication, but now I find that I’m liking it better than I expected. What do you guys think? Can I use it? If so, what changes would you still suggest? (I definitely don’t want to keep the corset, frex, since that...
November 4, 2015
Riding down Golden Lane for #WIPpet Wednesday
Mea culpa! It’s been a while since I participated in a Round of Words or WIPpet Wednesday! The thing is, I just haven’t had the time to make the rounds of other bloggers, and if I can’t do that, I feel bad about posting.
So why have I been so busy? Well, I’m still not done with the translation, but it’s close now! I’ve also been doing a lot of experimenting with marketing, to try to lift my books out of obscurity. It’s working, kind of, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Finally, I’ve be...
November 3, 2015
52 authors you can try for FREE!
Fifty-two books by fifty-two authors. All are the first in a series, all are free. Click the image or the link below to check them out!
http://pattyjansen.com/blog/fifty-two-authors-you-can-try-for-absolutely-nothing/
Please note: not all of these books are free outside of the U.S. Many of them have been made free through price-matching on Amazon, and the author does not have control over this. My book, for example, Yseult: Two Women, has not been price-matched outside of the US, whereas my...
November 2, 2015
Another one bites the dust: The Midlist
Last week, I posted about the results of my most recent 99c sales. Among the sites I listed as worth planning a promo around was “The Midlist.”
Well, not anymore. They have been so successful collecting addresses from readers, they have sold their list to Bookperk, an email subscription service exclusively for HarperCollins authors. Here’s the text of the email I got just a day after that blog post:
Dear Midlist Authors,
Thank you for helping us to grow a thriving community of readers on Th...
October 31, 2015
For Halloween, get “Misty and the Magic Pumpkin Knife” free! (At most retailers)
Happy Halloween!
In honor of the occasion, I made my Halloween short story “Misty and the Magic Pumpkin Knife” free through Draft2Digital. Since it’s no longer in KDP Select, I couldn’t make it free through Amazon this year without a lot of hassle, but I’ve made it free there before, so I hope the Amazon folks won’t feel too left out.
Misty Mankin hated Halloween. She hated ghosts and princesses and black and orange. Especially orange. She hated frozen pumpkin pie, the most common kind in...
October 26, 2015
Summary of ad results for 99c sales
When I did my 99c Countdown Deal of Yseult two months ago, I promised to do a summary post after this round of promos was over. Last week, the third week-long promo ended, and now I have put together my results to share with you, along with some conclusions about running a 99c sale. I did not apply for a Bookbub ad for any of these promos, since part of my motivation in testing ad sites like this is to find alternatives to Bookbub. I have had Bookbub ads before, and I know that they are effe...
October 18, 2015
Putting things in perspective — via Russell Blake
A hugely successful indie author, Russell Blake, summarizes the ways it just ain’t easy here:
http://russellblake.com/things-ive-learned-to-myself-as-a-newbie-writer/
I especially appreciated this:
That’s different than I thought when I started out. I kind of hoped that the old canard that you wrote a great novel, sold it to NY, and then sat back and got rich, was true. That you only needed to produce a little work over the years, and could devote lots of time to thinking great thoughts, tra...
October 16, 2015
5 Ways to Promote Your Free Book 1 Series Starter – via Lindsay Buroker
I’ve mentioned before on this site that permafree can be a good method of getting eyes on your books, even if it is no longer as effective as it used to be. This week, Lindsay Buroker has some great suggestions on how to push those free books, despite Amazon’s attempts to hide them:
5 Ways to Promote Your Free Book 1 Series Starter
Highly recommended!
And once you have read that, you might want to check out my list of places where you can advertise permafree books.
Luck and skill to all. :...
October 15, 2015
Final ad testing experiment: 99c sale of Shadow of Stone
I’ve been sick with a major head cold recently, which is one of the main reasons why I haven’t posted to this blog in over a week. I’m feeling a bit better today, which coincides with the first day of final round of testing ads for 99c sales of ebooks, this time for Shadow of Stone, Book II of The Pendragon Chronicles. Here’s the lineup for the next week:
Oct. 15 – None
Oct. 16 – BookGoodies ($5)
Oct. 17 – The Midlist (free)
Oct. 18 – ContentMo ($1.99)
Oct. 19 –
Oct. 20 – Book Barbarian ($8...
