Marie Silk’s Comments (group member since Jan 03, 2017)

Marie Silk’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Alex wrote: "I love that gif and all the moments when Sheldon hugs Penny, they're so hilarious and touching."

I believe that's the moment that Penny gives her sickness to Sheldon for the Valentines Day trip they were taking to the Large Hadron Collider. Yeah I'm a serious Big Bang geek :D.

Sam: thank you so much! Hmm, I'm not really sure how the sign in part works. I think there is a sign up through Facebook or with email and name.

Amy: thank you so much!

Thank you so much, Alex!! :)

Hi everyone :) my book tour with Xpresso has just started for Debutante, the prequel to the Davenport House series. I'm sponsoring a Rafflecopter giveaway for an Amazon gift card.

Enter the giveaway HERE

Thank you for sharing, Nicole! Those sound like great results!

Just wanted to update on how my feature went with Bookbub. According to their pricing page for a free feature, Bookbub says the average number of downloads for historical fiction is about 30K. Full disclosure, I used a few sites other than Bookbub in order to maximize the promotion as much as possible, but having used these sites before, I would guess that they did not bring in more than 1K downloads combined.

My final download count for the free promotion day was 43K. Royalties from my other books (on 99 cent countdown during the promotion) were enough to cover the cost of the Bookbub ad within hours of the newsletter hitting inboxes. It was a great promotion! Considering that it took me all the past year to reach an accumulative total of 30K free downloads for my book, what the BB ad accomplished in one day was very nice :).

Alex wrote: "Hi, Marie, I've just been reminded of this thread by new posts, would it be possible to get a post for my new release Written In Blood it came out at the beginning of the month and ..."

Got yours posted, Alex :)

Carrie, I'll get yours posted tomorrow :). Good luck with your countdown!

Steven, no problem at all :) since yours is still a week away, I might need a reminder the day of. Good luck with your release!

Anna Faversham wrote: "You will tell us, I hope, Marie, when your BookBub promotion hits? And then we want a blow-by-blow account of how it went and..., and, and...!

Party time."

The feature is today :) going well so far and it's only 9 am here. I can say that within minutes of the BB newsletter hitting my inbox, my previous records for "most free downloads in one day" and "most sales in one day" were broken :). I got extra lucky with the feature since they decided to place my book in their Facebook announcement this morning (only a few spots get that) as well as front and center on the first page of "deals" on their website! I'm very happy and grateful to BB editors for this!

Same here, Mary Ellen.

I agree, Alexis! How the heck is "Kindle Owners Lending Library" supposed to mean associated with Prime as opposed to actual Kindle owners lending from their library? Just...how?

Thank you for clearing that up, Nicole. I was wrong about lending royalties, then. It's a little confusing with "lending" in the title of KOLL so I thought they were the same. Oops!

Wow I have loved reading this thread. Such amazing authors we have here! :)

I have my books on lending, matchbook (free), and Kindle Unlimited so I can get them out there as much as possible. I honestly don't know how many readers take advantage of this function though because it all goes on the Kindle Unlimited pages read graph. Still I don't figure it could hurt :).

Not sure if it helps but this had been my slowest sales month since July. Bleh. My ranks always take a dive about 3-4 weeks after a promo. I did get an email from Amazon about a new release from you though :).

I follow a lot of threads on marketing but have yet to read about an author seeing sales from a goodreads ad. It seems that the best results authors see from them are books getting added to members' "to read" lists. If you are only paying per click, then technically you are getting free exposure when you don't have clicks. I think that the same or better results can come from running a Goodreads Giveaway.

Here is a list I compiled and cross-posted of promotion sites that don't have overly strict review requirements:

No reviews? No problem :) Check out these promotional sites for your new releases or books that don't meet the review requirements of other sites. The * indicates a site that does not require reviews on new books as long as the author is established with reviewed books on Amazon (and a high overall star rating). Approval processes still apply to most.

Free to submit:

Choosy Bookworm (free option)
Free99book.com
ebooklister.net
freebooks.com

Pay to submit:

Book Raid
Kindle books and tips
Book Gorilla*
Book Angel UK
Ebook Hounds
The Fussy Librarian* (Make sure you type “the” in the address bar or it will send you to a virus-y page!)
Bargain Booksy*
ENT
Just Kindle Books
Digital Book Today
Booksends*
Choosy Bookworm
Sweet free books*
Awesome Gang

I'm interested :)

Oooh, this is the first time I've entered an Amazon giveaway and it was so easy :) good luck Aislinn!

Theodore wrote: "Frankly, these are pretty daunting charges for the indie writer (in my opinion)...certainly not something I'd be willing to shoulder. "

Yeah...ouch.

Nely wrote: "I don't know if you all know this, but you can check to see if your book is in any library by searching it on WorldCat.org."

Thank you for the tip :)