William Amerman's Blog - Posts Tagged "amazon"
First one star review on Amazon - yeah baby!
I had gotten spoiled by all my five star reviews on Amazon. This week I randomly checked in and saw I'd gotten a new review--a one star review! What a fabulously dark, soul-crushing moment that was. After a total of 18 months or so to write the original draft, starting in Denver, finishing it in The Netherlands, holed up in the attic of my mother-in-law, a total of 20 or so full re-writes over 8 years, resulting in what I still view to be the tightest, most pruned and efficient sentence structures I could make (this sentence is getting loooong but I'm going to press on) with every word serving to advance the story, I'll admit that the 1 star stung a bit. But on reflection, I'd rather have the 1 star than a 3 star review.
The temptation to respond via the comments, to point out all the flaws in logic I saw with the 1 star reviewer was strong. But I resisted. I'm also resisting responding to it here, as well. But I thought I'd at least talk around it. You can't please everyone. This is the first reader of this book who has ever expressed any negativity at all about the book so, to you my dear cantankerous muse, I dedicate this morning's blog entry. Cheers!
The temptation to respond via the comments, to point out all the flaws in logic I saw with the 1 star reviewer was strong. But I resisted. I'm also resisting responding to it here, as well. But I thought I'd at least talk around it. You can't please everyone. This is the first reader of this book who has ever expressed any negativity at all about the book so, to you my dear cantankerous muse, I dedicate this morning's blog entry. Cheers!
Aries at Dawn free on Amazon for one day
I've put my novel, Aries at Dawn, for sale at the low, low price of nothing on Amazon for a day. Already, hundreds of "sales" so get it while you can because at this price it won't last long. Ah, well, yes I guess it will. The beauty of bits and bytes, eh?!
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Results of Free
Managed to give away 584 copies of Aries at Dawn. That probably makes 580 people who downloaded it to stockpile it for a rainy day, 2 readers who downloaded it by hitting the wrong button, and 2 readers who are probably in process reading it now. Am I too pessimistic? Or too optimistic?
Either way, it's had a wonderful effect on writing motivation for my current books. A free giveaway on Amazon is much different than when I did it on Smashwords. Amazon seems to have SO many more readers and potential readers.
I'm not really expecting much in the way of increased Sales of the Aries book, but hey, hopefully a lot more readers, maybe some reviews, etc. All in all, good experience. Even managed to move to #411 in all Amazon free books last night.
Either way, it's had a wonderful effect on writing motivation for my current books. A free giveaway on Amazon is much different than when I did it on Smashwords. Amazon seems to have SO many more readers and potential readers.
I'm not really expecting much in the way of increased Sales of the Aries book, but hey, hopefully a lot more readers, maybe some reviews, etc. All in all, good experience. Even managed to move to #411 in all Amazon free books last night.
