Launch Week
Rogue is officially out on Amazon and it’s made for an interesting week. The book was scheduled for release on Tuesday when I was flying back from the Gold Coast, so while I was waiting for airport transfers I was tracking UK and US time anticipating the release. The first release happened UK time while I was at Gold Coast Airport, so cue some subdued joy (so people didn’t think I was weird!) as I was in the departure terminal. Then as I was waiting for my bags in Auckland airport, then it was released in the US and officially out worldwide.
Thanks to the people who pre-ordered the book charted on some of the Amazon top 100 lists, including LGBT Sci-Fi (Amazon US) – where it’s still charted in the top 100. It also hit the Genetic Engineering List in America which surprised me. What was also cool was in the Australian store, the book debuted in the top 20 for dystopian fiction, alongside George Orwell….George frikkin Orwell!!
Safe to say it’s been a crazy week but while I am planning on doing monthly sales breakdowns, I thought it would be interesting for other indie authors to see how many sales I was able to make based on having no platform, list and just starting out.
Sales breakdown:
Paperbacks: 4
eBook: 34
KENP reads: 2,696 (this is the amount of page reads the book has had as part of the Kindle Unlimited programme)
When I’ve released book three, I intend to go wide with this series, but for now, it will remain exclusive to Amazon and so far it’s going well.
Next month I’m planning on organising a blog tour and expand on marketing but for now, I’m enjoying the start of this journey and knuckling down on writing book 2.