KDP Select

Even in my most optimistic hour I never, in my wildest, and it does get pretty wild, imagination, ever imagined I would sell over 1000 books. For six months I have been tirelessly pushing my book to reach 100 sales, failing at Christmas by the hair of a white Santa Claus whisker and now. Well now things have changed significantly.

I signed up for KDP Select about two weeks ago, mainly because I was busy with the other life (yawn, yawn, stretch) and I figured going on there was a bit like playing the lottery, potential pay out for low effort and given that I doubt I could have sold a kidney the way my luck was going in December I figured I had nothing to lose.

[image error] Of course I had nothing to lose but I had a lot to gain. Now I've racked up over 1000 sales, which happened in less than three days! Okay most of these were part of a free promotion, but if I was in this for the money I'd be writing short, sexy vampire stories and churning them out by the dozen. The ultimate goal for my first book is exposure, not the desert kind that kills you, but the kind that might make my next book smoothly slip onto the Amazon electronic shelves. So I've achieved it. Yippee. But... and there is always a but...

Where do I go now? Do I split the book into three and broaden my market? Do I push the current book and try to hit a million? With a surge of 1000 book in three days, will I ever be satisfied for this one a day nonsense I would have killed for three months ago? Find out in our next episode...

Here's a little something from Captain Huwzo, he's been on the quiet side for a while, but due to a spout of out of character good behaviour I have seen fit to unshackle one of his hands so he can commence some doodles fitting a new book cover. It's once again bordering on brilliance and madness and I am still to make up my mind whether he needs to be locked up or praised for this.