Book Updates
Looks like it’s been a while (7 weeks) since I’ve posted a book update on my blog. Funny thing is, I thought I had done this a couple of times in May. If so, something happened and the posts disappeared from the blog. For those of you who get my blog posts sent by email, I apologize if any of this info seems like a rerun.
Also, I posted several of these updates over the last 7 weeks, as they happened, on Facebook. But I know Facebook has changed things quite a bit and only a fraction of those who’ve Liked my page get to see what I post there.
Anyway, here goes…
What Follows After – Progress
Since mid April, there are now 86 customer reviews on Amazon (72 of them are 5-Star). This doesn’t mean that only 86 people have read the book. Less than 5% of book buyers take the time to write a review. But over 60% of readers say these reviews definitely impact their book-buying decisions. I know it affects me. I’ve bought some books because of great reviews, and not purchased others after reading several bad reviews.
If you bought this book, or any of my others, and really liked it, I’d greatly appreciate you taking the time to write a review. Even a few lines helps.
What Follows After has also done very well on Christianbook.com. For all of April and May, it remained in their Top 4 list for Contemporary Fiction. Since then, it has remained in their Top 10. I’ve really enjoyed reading all the reviews. So far, they’ve all been encouraging.
One last item, I’ve added a video interview done with award-winning author and director of the Blue Ridge Mountains writer’s conference, Alton Gansky. We mostly talked about the new book but got off on all kinds of other things. Click Here then scroll down a bit if you’d like to see it.
New Edition of Remembering Christmas
I found out a few weeks ago that Harlequin has purchased the rights for my 4th novel, Remembering Christmas, from my publisher (Revell), to create a mass market paperback edition of the book.
Remembering Christmas was my 2nd Christmas novel (The Unfinished Gift was first). When it came out, it was only available in hardback. It’ll be nice to have a paperback version available. This will also be my first paperback novel in the mass market size. All the rest have been trade size, which are really the same size as hardbacks, just with paper covers.
I don’t know when it will be available. Hopefully, in time for this Christmas. If so, I’ll let you know.
High-Flying Sales for 2 Other Novels
This is a screenshot I took last week.
Over the last few weeks, my publisher ran for 1-Day Ebook promos for two of my novels, The Discovery and The Reunion. Both were marked down to $1.99. During that day, The Discovery moved all the way up to #51 Overall in the Kindle Store and, on its day, The Reunion, moved all the way up to #160. Both of them were listed as #1 in several categories.
This picture was taken several days later when they were back up to their full price of $3.99. As you can see, they continued to sell well ranking at #1 and #4 in the Contemporary Romance category.
They are still selling well and both books have added over a dozen new customer reviews, all of them by readers who love the books and said they plan to buy my other books now.
My publisher has told me they plan to do one day discounts on two different Wednesdays in June for the first two books of my Restoration series with Gary Smalley. They will be marked down from $9.99 to $1.99 on those days. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I will definitely let you know when it happens.
Well, guess that’s all for now.
