The End of Magic challenge, week 6

On 9th July I made a big ol’ pubic declaration to sell a thousand copies of my fantasy novel The End of Magic by Christmas, and I promised to keep folks in the loop with the ups and downs of sales and marketing with a weekly update.

A few caveats…

I can only do this in the USA… Unbound have the UK rights and I have no visibility on sales other than the twice yearly statements.I’m going to stick with Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.I’ll be counting both Kindle and Paperback sales.Here’s week six!

Not much to report this week as I was mostly at Worldcon in Dublin, but a Facebook ad with a video was running in that time (here it is)…

… and here are the resulting sales…

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Not a sausage! And here’s the FB ad analysis…

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Well, that’s thirty-four quid I won’t be seeing again!

There are no quick fixes here. I’ll look at the ad and see how I can improve it, but I’m losing faith in the ads approach. I spent much of yesterday contacting bloggers to review the book, and I’ll continue to do that today. Reviews and word-of-mouth are essential for a book like this, and it’s working already…

My @goodreads review of @markstay's The End of Magic

Ebookwyrm's BlogCave: The End of Magic by Mark Stay https://t.co/Kz3MWmmMqY

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