Author’s Log: Super-Recalibratin’-Expialidocious (#amwriting, #ROW80)
Discovering you need two more chapters in your book is a terrible thing to realize in the midst of edits, ya’ll. Just sayin’.
In the end, it’s really no big deal. Reliance 1 will be out a week or so later than scheduled, but it will be a better book for it. I’m almost done!
In order for me to catch up on my production schedule (Thank you, Hamilton, for ruining my life in the best possible way), I’m going to need to crank out approximately 1,429 words per day, every day, for the next 9 weeks. So not too bad. My lunch hours will be occupied for awhile, anyway.
With that in mind, today I begin drafting Keepers 5. I’m having a wee bit of trouble trying to come up with cover art, but I have plenty of time to figure that out. The trick is to not become distracted by all the pretty pictures. o.O
I can, however, get a landing page with cover copy out. In addition, I’m working on getting the entire Blood & Steam series widely distributed with updated CTAs (Calls To Action), since I’ve pretty much utilized Kindle Select as much as possible. Waking Muse will also be getting the updated treatment.
Ad stacking on BRIGHID’S LOST worked well. Here’s how it went:
5 days FREE on Kindle Select
Day 1: 78 downloads
Day 2: 383 downloads
Day 3: 2,678 downloads
Day 4: 659 downloads
Day 5: 211 downloads
I schedule Ask David on Day 1, BK Knights on Day 2, and Free Booksy (the biggest spike) on Day 3. The idea was to make the Amazon algorithms see a steadily increasing spike, so I scheduled the ads in order of list size/efficacy. I left the last two days ad free because what inevitable happens is the first day’s ad downloads bleed over into the next day. So I built up a big, three day head and then let the tail drain out across the remaining days.
The end result is the BRIGHID’S LOST ended up at 125 in overall free Kindle books, #1 in Sci-Fi/Fantasy short reads, and #2 in Sci-Fi Romance. AND my first review as 5 Stars! YAY!
