Strange Sales Month

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...” – I can’t remember who the dickens said that.

Anyway, although I don’t usually talk about my ebook sales (because it would probably depress the hell out of you) July has been really odd. It would’ve been my worst month on Amazon, except I had one of the coveted ‘Book of the Day’ spots on Ereader News Today (for Snow Burn) – one of the very few effective, yet affordable, promo sites out there (and due to that, almost impossible to secure a spot for.) If I don’t include sales for that, I would only have 11 ebook sales on Amazon so far this month. But due to that spot, I have 225 ebook sales through Amazon this month. So July is actually a record month for me in number of paid sales (and there’s still a week left.) Having said that, the effect of the ENT spot lasted for about a week, and my Kindle sales have trickled to near nothing again.

But – as for the Nook, this month started really slow, until last Friday when I started having a run on sales of my short story ‘Leave No Wake.’ The most I ever sold of that story in a month for the Nook was 12. That’s for an entire month. But last Friday, I suddenly sold 39 copies of it (reaching a ranking of 489 at one point) on Saturday 29 copies, Sunday 15, and Monday 20 copies. Today those sales have slowed a bit, but I’m still on pace to sell about 10 or so today – 118 copies for the month so far. The only explanation I have for that surge is that I got on one or more of those ‘customers who bought this, also bought...’ lists.

Sales-wise, the month of July has been quite bipolar.