My Kindles Numbers and Going to SleuthFest
Two things I want to touch on today. One, my numbers at Kindle have been dismal this month. Especially so after reading Mike's column last week and seeing his high numbers. Are my prices too high? Maybe, so I brought my short stories back to .99-cents and my novels to $2.99.
My thought was that with all the new Kindle owners after the holidays last year, it was a good time to increase the prices. Worked well in January, one of my best months, but fell short in February. Could be all the new Kindle owners loaded up on reading material in January and are now reading it all!
I will see if lowering the prices has an effect on sales. I have also added "Free Range Institution" to the Kindle list. That was my traditionally published book that came out a year ago. I haven't done any advertising on it, yet, but did offer it free for two days to see if that would help.
The second thing is that I am preparing to leave for SleuthFest in two days. This year the event is in Orlando. The board (I am a member) decided to change venues from South Florida to Orlando to be more of a destination location event. It may have works, because, I believe, our number of attendees has increased over last year.
We're at a Disney hotel and the rate is a lot less than in Deerfield Beach or Miami, and now the attendee can send the spouse and kids off to Disney World for the day. Or something like that. More family friendly. Think of it, a writer in the cold northeast (well, it's usually cold this time of year) tells the spouse I'm going to South Florida for the conference and leaving you and the kids here to play in the snow. Yeah! That has probably went over like ice cubes in a blizzard.
There are good panels, and if you are attending, I am on a panel Friday morning to discuss locale in my writing. Well, three others and me. Hope you can stop by and listen.
You can go to www.mwaflorida.org and see the SleuthFest schedule. See the two guests of honor – Charlaine Harris & Jeffery Deaver – as well as who else is attending. Maybe one of your favorite mystery writers?
If you live in the Orlando area, the bookstore being set up at the hotel is open to the public, so feel free to stop by.
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