Keeping my promise

I said I’d let you know the results of my BookBub ad. Did it work? Heck, yes - I’d do it again any time I’m lucky enough to be accepted.

I mentioned it cost US$580 for the listing in their newsletter. To cover this I had to sell around a thousand books at the special reduced price of 99 cents. It was nerve-wracking watching the numbers climb – Amazon update their sales every hour, and Smashwords display Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and their own figures pretty fast. The iBook stores follow next day.

It took until early afternoon New Zealand time to reach the thousand sales. I’ve never sold a thousand books a day! That was the big worry out of the way, and by then the rankings were rocketing up.