Seas of the Red Star Starting to Sell

It had a rocky start, but momentum is finally carrying Seas of the Red Star along. The back-to-back-to-back release approach didn’t quite have the result I was hoping for on its own, but thanks to a recent advertising push, I have seen a considerable bump in sales for Seas of the Red Star in particular.

Out of the three books I released all at once, Battle Planet has been doing the best. In fact, of the three, that is the only one that did about as I expected. The other two have not been as popular.

All in all, this tells me I should put more attention on quality advertising. One thing that has come out of this is I am now beginning to learn which forms of paid advertising seem to garner results and which are wasted money. This is helpful for me going forward and I am definitely beginning to tell which forms of advertising fall into which category.

One thing that may be holding these three books back right now is that none of them have any Amazon reviews. Customers like seeing reviews, even bad ones, to be more confident in their purchase. Without reviews, it’s tougher to sell these books.

And of course, finishing the third part of my three-part pirate trilogy, Pirates of Vexa Prime, will help too. Customers like to see a series that is fully released before starting a new one. Therefor the sooner I can release part 3, the better I can sell part 1.

The unfortunate reality is that it has been difficult for me to motivate myself to work on part 3, which I am calling Return to Red One. The massive amount of time off from when M.D. Cooper and I came up with the idea to now, plus the fact that this wasn’t entirely my full idea to begin with, but rather a shared idea with another person, makes it difficult for me to want to follow-through and complete the project. Still though, I am working on it, albeit at a slower pace than I have written my other books.

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In other release news, Horizon’s Beyond, a near-future short-story anthology published by Keystroke Medium, is set to release any day now (I don’t know the exact date). I have a story featured in it called Salvation of the Seas (there seems to be a big sea theme going on here), which is about a virus that wipes out most of the human population. That collection should be out very soon, which will hopefully put a lot of attention on my other books. Perhaps the similarity in titles (Seas of the Red Star and Salvation of the Seas) will draw people in to my pirate series in particular.

In the meantime, it is good to see that this book is finally selling at all. I expected the pirate series to do better than it has, but perhaps it just needed a bit of a push.

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