12 Days: My Self Publishing Journey (Part 10 of 12)
Negative Reviews
Okay, so, I got my first negative review today. What did I do about it? I stared at the 2 star rating that this person gave me and wondered what I did wrong. How have I failed him/her? What can I do better?
Then, I shook my head, slapped my face a couple of times, and poured a bucket of ice water over my head. WAKE UP!
You can’t please everyone. If you could, then wow! That’s impressive. The truth in life is that not everyone will like what you do. Not everyone will think you’re the greatest or even so-so. Some people just won’t like your personality or your “vibe”. You may be too slow, too fast, too shy, too talkative, too handy, too knowledgeable, too imaginative, too lazy, too happy, too sad, too… you get the drift.
Forget all of that. Live your life, sing your song, and do what you love. Some people may become inspired simply because you’re doing your passion in spite all of the odds. And, when you do that, the heavens applaud and life seems brighter, easier, and beautiful. You’re living your bliss.
That is what I’m doing and I’m carrying on with it.
Day 4 of the free promotion
I’ve given away 2767 books of “The PureLights of Ohm Totem“. I’m elated, even though I was hoping for 10,000 downloads by now. If I would have been accepted by BookBub, then I think 10,000 may have been do-able. Check them out if you haven’t yet.
I’m still ranked #1 in my category, but am just over #400 in all of kindle books. I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll be set higher on the Amazon search ranking algorithm (I don’t know if that’s what it’s truly called, but it sounds alright with me) as soon as my book is off of the free promotion. Once it’s higher, then perhaps I’ll be able to sell more books, because it will be “seen”.
Tomorrow is my last day, so I’ll give you one last update, and then by day 10 I’ll write a nice, longer post of everything that I have done thus far to get me so many downloads. Again, it’s not the amount of downloads that I wished for, but I’m not complaining.
Have a great day, everyone!
