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January 17, 2012
KDP Select and Human Nature
Those who know me will groan and realize they expected nothing less at my choice of titles and words. Those who don't know me will groan anyhow (for the same reason). The Human Nature I'm referring to has nothing to do with our personalities and quirks. This Human Nature is a science fiction book I wrote a while back, but aside from some great reviews it's never really taken off. Enter KDP Select and Amazon Prime…
I've got a blog post coming out in a couple of days about a new release that's coming out this week (so stay tuned!). This particular experiment took place last week. Using the KDP Select promotions manager I keyed up Human Nature to run free for two days late last week (Friday and Saturday, I believe). I 'sold' a couple hundred copies of it. Since then it's been selling at the regular price at a much improved rate and moving up the charts. At this early stage, it looks like a successful experiment.
There's a downside though. That being the exclusivity Amazon requires in order to enroll in the KDP Select program. Just this morning I had an email from a reader in Australia who was looking for my books but was unable to get them because of her location and the fact that she doesn't have a Kindle. I'm trying to help her figure out a way to do so, even if it means using the Kindle App for the PC and reading it on her computer. I'm not sure if Amazon is able to sell books in Australia. Shame on me for my ignorance, but I'm using this situation to eliminate that problem. In the meantime let me point out to my fellow writers that are considering KDP Select that it can be a double edged sword.
And for anyone who's curious about the stand-alone novel, Human Nature, here's the cover you click on to go check it out!
Human Nature, sci-fi / romance by Jason Halstead
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January 14, 2012
Amazon Prime: Am I Naive or Ignorant?
I tossed a couple of my books into the KDP Select program back in December. KDP Select allows Amazon Prime members the opportunity to download a book for free and read it at their leisure, then check it back in when they're finished so they can get another one (free). For each borrow against my books I get an even share of the $500,000 pool Amazon set aside. This could be a good or a bad thing, depending upon what that share is worth.
For December it worked out to be $1.70 per borrow. Considering the books I entered were $.99 books (every book in my Vitalis series is only $.99), if I sold a copy I would only receive $.35. Having them borrowed, on the other hand, was far more lucrative for me. Even better news, the program worked so well in December that Amazon upped the port to $700,000 in January of 2012.
Now the flip side – I had 9 copies of two books borrowed in December. 9 * 1.70 = $15.30. Nothing outstanding but I'll take every penny I can get at this point. So far almost halfway through January I have 6 borrows. I also slipped two more books into being Amazon only – Human Nature and Sex Sells. No borrows on those yet, but It's only been three days so far and those aren't big selling books. I blame the cover art I have on them for starters. I'm told the books are great (I agree, but I'm biased). The other reason marketing tactics, I've never used any. Time to put an end to that!
That's the other benefit for authors in the KDP Select program: promotions. I can schedule 1 – 5 days in a 90 day period for each book to be offered for free. How does that help sales? It slips the book to links where people can find and grab it, and the more people that grab it, the more lists it gets on. That's exposure, and exposure is what sells books for a little feller like me.
Thus Human Nature has been available for free yesterday and today. I'll probably try it again next month some time. Sex Sells I plan to have go free on Tuesday and Wednesday of the coming week (January 17 & 18). Not long after that I'll run New Beginnings (in my Vitalis series) free for a day or two as well as a gimmick to help boost interest in the release of the third book in that series (Parasites). Parasites will also be in the KDP Select program, for the Amazon Prime readers out there.
Speaking of Amazon Prime, WTF is it? I'll be honest, before KDP Select I had no idea. I live in my sheltered world writing, working, and picking up heavy weights. I don't get out much and when I do it's because I've been dragged (kicking and screaming) to the mall so my wife can go shopping. I did, however, get a Kindle Fire for Christmas. It's neat, I really enjoy it and I wish it would have been available a few years ago when I suckered myself into buying my iPad. C'est la vie. Shoppers remorse aside, the Kindle Fire came with a month of free Amazon Prime membership. So I got to see what all the buzz was about.
I still don't get it. I hear Prime members get free shipping. Great… I'm not selling enough books to do much in the way of shopping yet though. Okay, what about borrowing KDP Select books? I tried it and was surprised to see I can only borrow one book a month, even if I return it. Suddenly it seemed much less worth it to me. It began to make sense why I wasn't getting more borrows on my books. It's a work in progress though, both for me and, I'm sure, for Amazon. If there's more cool features to being a Prime member I'd like to learn about those too. Until then I'll keep experimenting with trying to get more exposure for my books.
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January 11, 2012
Hidden Agenda
There's no conspiracy theory or ulterior motives attached to this, I just wanted to put down a rough agenda of what I've got planned in the writing world for 2012. With any luck it will build up some excitement for people interested in some or all of my various story lines. If nothing else, it will help to hold me accountable to make sure I get some work done!
Here's the writing schedule:
Current project: Voidhawk, book 4. Status: 50% ish. Rough draft ETA: February. Story: Logan, Bekka, and Bailynn go off in search of helping Bekka to find herself and to figure out why she's kind of a lousy sorceress. What they find along the way ends up making Bekka's quest seem almost insignificant in comparison. There are undead, witches, faeries, and a dangerous encounter with a tribe of half men / half lions. And what kind of a story would it be if there weren't some romance tossed in along the way? Imagine how complicated a love triangle between a priest, a woman confused about her sexuality, and another woman destined to wear the body of a teenage girl the rest of her life? Now if only I could figure out a title…
Dark Earth, book 2. Rough Draft ETA: March / April. Story: A witch has been sent, complete with a personal guard, to slip through the new Lord Baxter's portal and open up a passage between worlds of her own. Along the way she will suffer culture shock and question not only the life she lives, but also the mission she's on and whether it's worth the price of betrayal. This will be a direct sequel to my original Dark Earth title.
Vitalis, book 5. Rough draft ETA: April / May. Story: Exploring the dynamic of the "tribe" that lives in Treetown on Vitalis, as well as how they must come together to deal with threats. I'm still working out the details. 
Wanted, book 3. Rough draft ETA: May / June. Story: I'm working on a couple of possibilities. The characters from the first two books (Wanted and Ice Princess) will probably be present, but only in cameo or support roles.
Dark Earth, Lost Treasures. Rough draft ETA: June / July. Story: Lost treasures is going to open up a new series in my Dark Earth setting. I haven't figured out exactly which "treasure" will be sought out in this book yet, but I plan to go after the mythological stories lost to time. Except in this setting they weren't lost to time, they just didn't exist anywhere other than Dark Earth. (Atlantis, The Fountain of Youth, the City of Gold, The Golden Fleece, etc..)
Vitalis, book 6. Rough draft ETA: August. Story: Depends on how book 5 goes, but I've got ideas-a-plenty.
Dark Earth, Black Widow. Rough Draft ETA: Sept / Oct. Story: This will be back in my "Lost Girls" sub-series. Katalina's on the case of a new serial killer, one that seems to have a fondness for torturing and killing men. She couldn't care less normally except this time the killer used a man's wife and young daughter as instruments of torture. The thing that keeps getting in her way is that the man survived the attack and he's out for vengeance in the bloodiest way possible. Katy has to decide if she's willing to work with him or against. Oh, and did I mention the pressure she's getting to visit her father in prison and try to make amends with him?
Dark Earth, Lost Treasures book 2. Rough Draft ETA: Nov / Dec. Story: More of the same as the first book, except a new mythical treasure and some new supporting characters to keep things lively.
And here's the publishing schedule:
January:
Traitor (already out!)
Vitalis – Parasites
February:
Vitalis – Screamer
March:
Wolfgirl (Dark earth – The Lost Girls, book 3)
April:
Voidhawk, book 4
May:
June:
Dark Earth, book 2
July:
Vitalis, book 5
August:
September:
Wanted, book 3
October:
Dark Earth, Lost Treasures
November:
Vitalis, book 6
December:
Dark Earth, Black Widow
It's going to be a busy year but I'm excited by it and hopefully so is everybody else! And now you know what's coming down the pipe. Some of these books and the order they're in are the direct result of feedback I've received from readers. Let that be a lesson – don't be shy about contacting writers! We want to hear what your thoughts are. It excites us and helps give us direction sometimes.
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January 10, 2012
Headaches and Parasites
I got a call yesterday from my wife stating that she was going blind in one eye and the other one was blurry. Soon it was followed by black spots, flashing colors, and erratic eye movement when she tried to close her eyelids.
My first reaction was to assume it was a migraine. I'd had a few of them back in my senior year of high school. It's terrifying, the first time especially. I wondered if it really was true that masturbation could make me go blind! Fortunately I haven't had any sense. There was incident a few years ago regarding some temporary partial blindness, but that was caused by some aggressive (and wasteful) creatine loading without proper hydration.
Back to my wife – what really freaked me out was when her speech became slightly slurred on the phone and she had trouble remembering some key words. It was at that point I pulled some strings to get somebody to cover for me at work so I could get her to the doctor to be checked out. Some basic tests and a CT scan later showed that she was in perfect health. It really was just a migraine. Hearing that lowered my blood pressure as well!
Half an hour later after a shot of migraine-killing-stuff she felt good enough to suggest going to the gym for our regular Monday night workout. I put up a little resistance but I was proud of her determination. I did take it easy on her at the gym, but she made up for the lower intensity with higher volume. Attagirl!
Are their parasites involved? Little creatures chewing away at blood vessels and synapses causing debilitating headaches and blindness? No, there are not. Or at least not in the this case. The parasites I'm referring to involve creatures that are eaten in egg form and hatch inside the digestive tract of a host. As they mature (rapidly), they eat first the nutrients in the host's digestive tract then later, as they grow, they begin to eat the host. Eventually they need to exit the host. At full size these creatures are perhaps the size of a small passenger car.
WTF am I talking about? Why it's my new book I'm hoping to release in the very near future! Editing is done on Vitalis – Parasites. It's the third book in the sci-fi series about the accidental discovery of a life-supporting hostile new planet outside of human controlled space. Editing is completed, now I'm onto the cover art stage. Vitalis – Parasites will also be available to Amazon Prime Members for free via the KDP Select program!
To learn more about Jason Halstead, visit his website to learn about him, his books, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
January 6, 2012
Traitor Released!
Dark Earth is selling like crazy right now – it's almost a shame it's free! Go ahead and click on the link if you want to check it out. I mention Dark Earth because it established my Dark Earth setting. From there the next book I've released in that setting is The Lost Girls, and that upset people. The Lost Girls isn't an immediate sequel, so while almost everyone really likes the book, it's caught some flack for not continuing the original story right after Dark Earth ended.
I'm hoping that the release of my latest book, Traitor, puts some of those grumblings aside. Traitor is an immediate sequel to The Lost Girls. It also takes the action back into Dark Earth, though this time it's out west in a place we call northern Arizona. That means the Dark Earth equivalent to our Earth's history – including folklore and mythology. Katalina Wimple's up against more than just earthly opponents this time. With the help of new and old friends she has to fight the spirit world itself to have a chance of surviving the abuse I heap on her in this one!
And for the purists who still want an immediate sequel to Dark Earth – stay tuned! It's my next project to write (which should put that out sometime in the 3rd quarter of 2012 if all goes according to plan). Until then, give this a try, I think you'll like it!
Traitor, a Dark Earth novel, by Jason Halstead
Katalina Wimple ran out of bad guys to chase. She found love and peace hand in hand and nothing seems impossible… until the one-that-got-away shows up in need of help.
Her new case takes her through the portal to Dark Earth where she's expected to save a man with a shady past. She'll face not only mythology and folklore in the flesh, but a relationship strained to the point of no return by an old flame.
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January 5, 2012
The End of an Era: 2011 Results!
I went on and on last year about how I was conducting all this research and trying different things as an indie writer: marketing tactics, cover art, blurbs, multi-genre, pricing, and even blogging. Well 2011 is over and my research and while my attempts to find new ways to reach my audience and interest them are far from over, I figure I could start off the new year with a summary of what worked for me and what didn't.
First cover art. Cover art is something I consider extremely important. A snappy image that shows well even in the thumbnail size view on the Kindle draws attention, plain and simple. Bright colors are nice but there are more black and white Kindles out there than anything else so good contrast is equally important.
Title and Blurb are next up. After the cover art having a great title that draws people in and interests them is important. And very, very difficult. How do you predict the success of a couple of words? Follow it up with a short but intriguing blurb and you're well on your way.
On reviews I remain mixed. I've got some books with several reviews and some with less. I'm unconvinced as to how useful reviews really are. The problem is there are some people who write reviews that have no idea what they're writing – I'm amazed they even know how to read and write, in fact. Meanwhile other people write some well thought out reviews that go unnoticed or are nullified by the bad ones. After all, as a society we focus more on negative news than good news. Why else would Fox News be so successful?
Pricing is a constant struggle. Not just for me but for everybody. I've written about it in the past at great length, so this time I'll keep it concise. I found that pricing my books to sell rather than what I think they're worth is the key to getting sales. And in some cases I give books away for free (Voidhawk, Wanted, and Dark Earth are free on Amazon). These loss leaders are my gifts to the Kindleverse to let people sample my writing and – hopefully – want to come back for more. In November and December these loss leaders were very successful at pulling people in to read the sequels and check out my other books. I hope they continue to do so!
Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has been useful. It helps me get the word out and let's people know what's going on in the world of my books. It's far from the alpha and the omega of book sales though. Twitter, in particular, has definitely helped me get the word out and let people know of the existence of my books, my blog, and my website. Having over 10,000 followers on Twitter certainly helps! I have automatic tweets set up that I change twice a month or so (or whenever something exciting happens), but more than that I use Twitter to talk to people. All of my followers as a group with random updates of whatever silly thing I'm doing or for specific conversations I talk to others about. That keeps Twitter genuine to me, and not just another automated and soulless channel. I can't hope to name all the great people I've met on there and I don't want anybody I might miss feel left out or bothered, so I won't attempt a list of twitter people.
Amazon's built in lists. These lists are one of the keys to getting decent sales on Amazon. Without being on a list people have a hard time finding your books without a direct link (unless they're searching for it specifically). Being on the various lists, both best selling and the "people who bought this also bought…" kind of lists improve visibility. Being seen is the first step to being purchased. What comes next is the cover art / title / blurb angle to secure the sale.
Getting a sale is only the first step. Ultimately it's going to come down to writing something good. If it's good then people will come back for more and they'll write you letters telling you how much they enjoyed your book. They might even tell their friends and drive sales up a little more. Writing is the ultimate tool in a writer's tool box. Everything else just helps to move the process along.
Blogging and website. Having either is another great tool. Having both is a great tool x 2. It's a venue that allows me to interface with my readers and give them information about new books and other communications so they can get to know me better. I don't just want readers, I want friends. The more I can share with them the more invested they become to me and the more invested I become to them. And who likes to let a friend down? My friends expect me to entertain them and give them stories they enjoy and I would hate to disappoint them!
More on blogging and my website. I was amazed at watching the stats during the holidays. Traffic dropped to almost nothing during the break but this morning I noticed it had jumped back up. That told me two things: 1) People would rather browse the web, read blogs, and do other things than work and 2) I was apparently one of those people!
Now some numbers to prove it:
June Sales: July Sales: Aug Sales Sep Sales Oct Sales Nov Sales Dec Sales
20 20 50 109 197 456 1399
Yeah, it ramped up quick once I started figuring things out. Granted, I also put out more books and continue to do so, but I learned a lot along the way about marketing. The problem is I'm a long ways away from doing well enough to bail on the day job. And in January things seem to be slumping a little. The holidays are over though and I'm back on the writing and promoting bandwagon, so hopefully I can bring things back around in short order! In the meantime, I hope my experiments helped my fellow budding and struggling writers as well. If you're interested in learning more I recently created a Yahoo group called The Marketeers. Look it up and request to join if you think you'd like to be a part of the process – I've got a couple of great writers in there already (including yours truly).
To learn more about Jason Halstead, visit his website to learn about him, his books, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
January 4, 2012
It IS a Happy New Year
Earlier this week I got an email from a reader that told me she'd gotten a Kindle Fire for Christmas. She grabbed one of my books (Dark Earth), and was hooked. Then she grabbed Wanted and the hook sunk in even deeper. She came up for air long enough to send me an email letting me know how much she was enjoying them and that, for me, was worth its weight in gold.
Sadly my sales have been slumping lately. I blame it on the holidays and people being busy with decompressing from the holiday stress (or recovering from New Year's Eve). Or at least that's what I'm hoping the slump is from. In spite of that, getting that one single email perked me up and helped remind me there's more to this than me getting excited about the stories I'm telling and selling books. It's also about touching people and entertaining them. Maybe even helping them a little. The reader I mentioned could certainly use a little escapism in her life, from what she told me, and I'm honored to have been picked to provide it for her.
She's not the only one, just the most recent. I've had other people email me to let me know what they thought. So far the thoughts have always blown my socks off in a good way, so I encourage the world to keep 'em coming! I'm not much for shopping but for this cause I'm happy to go and find new socks. Heck, that's why the first books in three of my series are free – so people can enjoy them without any strings. Just a chance to prove that there really is a free lunch. Of course I'm hoping those readers will then buy other books I've written. Even if they don't, knowing it helped them find some stress relief, escapism, come up with a new angle on a problem, or just kept them entertained is a great feeling for me.
So my friends, feel free to check out Wanted, Voidhawk, and Dark Earth on you Kindle or Kindle Reader for the PC / Mac. They're free on Amazon, just click on the links provided. And let me say thank you to each and every one, even those who write the nasty things on reviews – you all help to make me a better writer and a better person.
To learn more about Jason Halstead, visit his website to learn about him, his books, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
January 3, 2012
Accountability in 2012
The holidays have come and gone. With it, for me, came an amazing lack of productivity. Oh sure, it was great to decompress from the day job and spend time with my family. Hated coming back to work, in fact. I also learned an important lesson: if I want to get anything productive done at home on a daily basis I need a home office, preferably with sound proofing.
So that brings me to new year and what it has in store for me. Or what I have planned for it. Either way, I'm counting on it being exciting! To start with I'm days away from releasing my first book of 2012, Traitor. It's the sequel to The Lost Girls and takes place in my Dark Earth series. This particular book takes the heroine from The Lost Girls and tosses her back into Dark Earth where she gets to be bombarded with Native American folk lore and spirits, shamanistic practices and magic, and a confusing betrayal while she tries to establish her own love life.
Shortly after that (I hope), Vitalis book 3: Parasites, will be released. I'm still hoping for a January release date, but nothing's carved in stone. In Parasites the Terran Coalition makes first contact with Vitalis in a two-fold mission: search for survivors / natives and establish a research colony. What they can't possibly know is how xenophobic the planet is and what lengths it will go to in order to claim and trespassers as its own. The survival of the fittest them continues as new people are introduced (and devoured), while those that survive learn quickly to adapt and evolve.
There are more books in pipeline as well, but they're far enough out (Feb – March at the earliest) I don't want to get anyone unduly excited. I will say that I'm working on the fourth book in my Voidhawk series right now and once that's finished (this month or bust) I'm going to start in on an immediately sequel to Dark Earth. I'm really excited about the ideas I have for that book and can't stop new ones from popping into my mind all the time.
The title of this blog is Accountability. I used the term intentionally, it's meant to help me hold myself accountable for my boasts. Thus far I've done a fairly decent job at that, and maybe that's because I put them out there for anyone to see. That way I know I'm not the only one who expects results from me. So this is sort of a new year's resolution thing as well. On top of the 4 books I have pending in (hopefully) Q1 of this year I hope to squeeze in a total of at least 8 books this year. 10 – 12 would be ideal, but hey, there's only one of me!
And outside of the writing world I've got other goals. Paying off bills and getting ready for pending student loans (MBAs aren't cheap), bench pressing 405+ again if my injured body will let me, and deadlifting 600+. Silly goals to some, perhaps, but they help me develop the discipline I need to continue to push hard for success in all venues of life.
A new year means a new chance to start out fresh and make things happen for you. Big or small, make some changes in your life that make things better for you. Improve what needs improve or get rid of what needs to be dropped! We could also stand to fix something, what's yours?
To learn more about Jason Halstead, visit his website to learn about him, his books, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
December 22, 2011
Expecting the Unexpected Journey
While The Hobbit wasn't the first fantasy novel I read, it was near and dear to my adolescent heart. I think I'd even read the book at least 14 times before I was old enough to vote. Scary, I know, but it gets worse: I read The Hobbit to my daughter in a series of bedtime story episodes before she was three years old! We're working our way through The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, at the moment.
The Lord of the Rings, on the other hand, was a bear for me – it was slow and boring. I think I read J.R.R. Tolkien's, The Silmarillion, first – and that betrays all common sense! If you're not sure why, try reading it sometime and it'll make sense.
I watched the cartoons for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings too. It's a wonderful world with loads of opportunities for the imagination. With The Hobbit, Mr. Tolkien really nailed it, in my opinion. Good pace, a fun book, and he introduced many people to the possibilities of fantasy. He wasn't the first to write such things, but he had the biggest market share at the time.
It's ironic that Peter Jackson created The Lord of the Rings movies before The Hobbit. Tolkien did the same thing, but nobody would publish LoTR. So he wrote The Hobbit, which was accepted and published. With the groundwork laid out, The Lord of the Rings was a sequel, and sequels meant money. As much as the publishing industry is changing these days, some things stay the same. I have to admit, I'm excited at the prospect of watching The Hobbit next December. After watching the preview I'm even more stoked by it. Thorin Oakenshield even looks a little like a close friend of mine from childhood. In fact, if you're reading this, Hi Dave!
For the writers out there that like to pick up bits and pieces of useful data from my blog, J.R.R. Tolkien is a fine example of a writer who went through the process so many of us do. He wrote something and failed at it. So he wrote something else and tried again. In writing the next book he took to heart what he'd learned from his failure and crafted a very enjoyable story. Enjoyable and successful. In my opinion anything he put out after The Hobbit was at best almost on the same level as The Hobbit was. His name had been elevated to the ranks of instant sales though, so he could have written an essay on how to repair plumbing, sprinkled in a little Sperethial (the language of the elves he created in Middle Earth), and had it published. I see a couple of lessons to be learned from studying Tolkien: Never give up and we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
I'm trying to take that to heart and to learn as much as I can when I succeed as I do when I fail. It's hard, but that's why if we want to be successful in the business of writing we should always be trying new and different things. Never rest on your laurels, the wolf on the top isn't nearly as hungry as the one climbing the mountain.
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December 18, 2011
Me and the Honey Badger
My wife and I just took our children to see Chipwrecked. I was worried at first but it turned out to be a great film. More importantly, it had a scene that almost made me cry I was laughing so hard… the honey badger has a cameo appearance. If you don't know who the honey badger is, here's a link to the video on youtube. Seem stupid? It kind of is, but watch it again and turn off your ability for anything above mindless entertainment.
There was a preview for another movie, The Mysterious Island, or something like that. Seeing that gave me another idea. As I thought about it the idea expanded and consumed me. And now, with that running through my head I've got some neat new story ideas.
And these ideas are why my Dark Earth setting rocks. Book 1 introduces it. The planned direct sequel to it will expand on it some. I've got another series shaping up in the Dark Earth setting starting with The Lost Girls, and now I've got another sub-series planned for it! To give you a clue here's where I'm going with it…
Atlantis, The Fountain of Youth, the Lost City of Gold, and countless other legends of our history exist not simply because of creative imaginations of sailors that drank too much rum. They exist because of random portals between our world and the Dark Earth that opened throughout history allowing people to cross over back. Enter into this a treasure hunter with a somewhat shady reputation (the character probably won't use a bullwhip and wear a fedora though).
Hmm, I wonder if throwing in something from ancient Greek mythology would be fun too? My options truly are almost limitless with this setting – I can't wait to get started on them!
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