Sale Fail and Word Count
Let's see 33,766, is the word count currently, but I hope to add another thousand to that before the day (and naptime) is over. The word count went pretty good, but I totally failed on Wednesday and Thursday. I was up until very late (for me) Tuesday and just could NOT face the idea of waking up at 5:30. Of course, my kid woke up at 6:30, but at least I got that extra hour. And a nap. And slept in again on Thursday, when he slept in until the unheard hour of 7:15. Holy cow! How did that happen?
Kicked butt on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, though. Hoping to reach 40,000 this week. Oh, and guess what... I think this book is going to be longer than 70,000 words. I have been suspecting as much, as it was being written, and I'm now fairly certain that Aeris will be at LEAST 80,000 words, but I'm thinking it may get to 90,000. I don't know. But this is going to blow my plans for having two books written by the end of August, dammit. It might end up being 1.5 books.
In other news, there has been quite the firestorm in the Amazon author world this week. It all started with Gaga and her servers crashing because of that Gaga album for 99 cents. Literally no one had sales on Tuesday and Thursday, and if they had ANY sales, it was like 18 instead of 100. Seriously. And people were freaking the heck out. I mean, I don't sell 100 books a day. EVER. But can you imagine selling 10% of what you normally do? Holy cow. And this went on FOR DAYS. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.... And people were flying through the forums questioning the book selling gods. "Where did all the people go? Did the rapture happen and only the Saints bought my books before???"
To top off Gaga, several other things went all weird. Tags disappeared. Also viewed percentages went missing. Also bought bars disappeared. Listmania stopped letting you vote if the list was helpful. It also stopped telling you how many people had viewed the list previously. Then there was the free book phenomenon. People who downloaded tons of free books (like me) were much less likely to need anything else for a while.
And no one could tell if it was the server mess or Amazon being itself and changing things up. And because so many many things happened at the same time no one could tell what it was that threw their sales off. It was all so confusing.
Today it is still a mess. Half the people have sales that are back up to normal. Half the people have not recovered one iota. Tags have appeared and disappeared several times. Also boughts have been flashing in and out.
I love it when the voice of reason comes out to try and help. It's like, people are watching stuff fall from the sky and there's a person standing out in the middle of the street saying, "They aren't bombs, I swear. It's just paper balls." But they're so high up, that no one can tell, and they believe the worst, in their total confusion.
Anyway, that was my interesting end to the week.
Happy Reading!
Kicked butt on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, though. Hoping to reach 40,000 this week. Oh, and guess what... I think this book is going to be longer than 70,000 words. I have been suspecting as much, as it was being written, and I'm now fairly certain that Aeris will be at LEAST 80,000 words, but I'm thinking it may get to 90,000. I don't know. But this is going to blow my plans for having two books written by the end of August, dammit. It might end up being 1.5 books.
In other news, there has been quite the firestorm in the Amazon author world this week. It all started with Gaga and her servers crashing because of that Gaga album for 99 cents. Literally no one had sales on Tuesday and Thursday, and if they had ANY sales, it was like 18 instead of 100. Seriously. And people were freaking the heck out. I mean, I don't sell 100 books a day. EVER. But can you imagine selling 10% of what you normally do? Holy cow. And this went on FOR DAYS. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.... And people were flying through the forums questioning the book selling gods. "Where did all the people go? Did the rapture happen and only the Saints bought my books before???"
To top off Gaga, several other things went all weird. Tags disappeared. Also viewed percentages went missing. Also bought bars disappeared. Listmania stopped letting you vote if the list was helpful. It also stopped telling you how many people had viewed the list previously. Then there was the free book phenomenon. People who downloaded tons of free books (like me) were much less likely to need anything else for a while.
And no one could tell if it was the server mess or Amazon being itself and changing things up. And because so many many things happened at the same time no one could tell what it was that threw their sales off. It was all so confusing.
Today it is still a mess. Half the people have sales that are back up to normal. Half the people have not recovered one iota. Tags have appeared and disappeared several times. Also boughts have been flashing in and out.
I love it when the voice of reason comes out to try and help. It's like, people are watching stuff fall from the sky and there's a person standing out in the middle of the street saying, "They aren't bombs, I swear. It's just paper balls." But they're so high up, that no one can tell, and they believe the worst, in their total confusion.
Anyway, that was my interesting end to the week.
Happy Reading!
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So what you're saying is, basically, Aeris is going to be longer, therefore you're going to ditch the idea of doing two novels and just hurry up and publish that one, right? RIGHT??? Sorry, I'm a little impatient here. I tend to let myself forget that writing takes, uh, time and all that. :)
Time, yes. And copious amounts of editing, proofing, formatting, cover creating. Although, I have to admit, the process gets easier and easier each time I do it. I think once you get in the groove, and get your contacts in "the indie industry", release times for books can be much faster. Six Keys took me almost a year from the end of the first draft to ebook. Compis took me 8 mths. I don't know if I can halve THAT for Aeris, but I bet I could get it down to 6 mths, now that I have a process in place. Can you imagine? It's a pretty exciting idea. :)
Bena wrote: "Wow. I have to say, your blog never fails to interest me. I had no idea of the world of indie writing, and now I've learned so much about it.You know, every day I feel like I learn more. And it never fails to interest me, either. :)
Can't wait to find out what the total wordcount ends up being for Aeris. Really enjoyed Compis. Sorry I haven't put up a review yet. Maybe I'll have time this week.