Eldon’s Comments (group member since Jan 05, 2017)

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

Annabelle wrote: "1. Read as much as you can. When you have a free moment, you should read. When you're eating dinner, you should read. When you're on the toilet, obviously you should read (because if you play with ..."

Awesome post Annabelle!! Important info and humorous (not misspelled, just Canadian eh) as well :D

Reading the latest from Erin Lee Daniels



20% done so far and must say it's great so far! Very atmospheric :)

I'd be interested to participate Sarah!

Anna Faversham wrote: "54 books is good for ENT, so well done. My last one with them was only 40, but for a Time Travel Romance, which has been with them maybe 6 or 7 times at least before. And the book came out in 2012...."

I am amazon exclusive. I hadn't heard of them either until recently, we'll see how it goes :)

Anna Faversham wrote: "Thanks, Eldon. It's always good to know how we are all doing and also good to compare what an ENT (and others) promotion provides for different genres and different authors."

No problem Anna!

Yesterday's final tally was 54 books. Today's Bargain Booksy hasn't been as successful with a total of 12 sold so far and only 4 of those can be directly linked to the promo. It's worked in the past but not this time it seems...

Oh well, bring on the new player tomorrow - Just Kindle Books let's see what you can do!

As of now the effect of ENT has been to push me to #23 in my category and around #4,500 overall. The promo garnered me 51 sales today...not too shabby at all :D

Going very well so far :D

Stillness is charting at #30 for medical thrillers and cracked the top #9,000 in the overall Kindle store!!

I figure I still have a push coming from the left coast and then onto tomorrow's promo :)

Carole wrote: "Good luck. I hope you get a million downloads!!!"

Not expecting quite that many lol

Thanks Erin!!! 😊

Thanks Anna and Sam :)

So far so good!!

Starting today for the next 4 days I'm running a promotion for all my books in the Descent Series.

Stillness kicked things off with an ENT feature today at $0.99 and will be followed up by Taken at $1.99 tomorrow in a Bargain Booksy deal. Then Friday I roll out Realm of Shadows at $1.99 through Just Kindle Books!

I'll be sure to let everyone know how it goes :)

Amy wrote: "I'm not surprised Eldon, I had to jump through hoops to get the content I'd bought for my daughter onto her Kindle when I bought it. They don't make it easy."

They certainly don't!! Don't make any sense either lol

Theodore wrote: "Just announced:

Pepe Builds a Nest
Winner: Best Children’s Illustrated
4th Annual Pacific Book Awards 2017

I could not be more pleased, given the importance of this little book for K-3 (anti-bull..."

Hearty congrats!!!

I have to say Amazon has outdone themselves this time. I purchased a kindle to give my wife as an anniversary gift and thought hey, why not transfer some of the books from my own kindle on to hers.

Of course I come to find out that this type of sharing is not allowed by Amazon. I mean give me a break! I understand wanting to stop piracy and am all for that, but seriously!? Sharing books is as old as time. The joy of reading comes from sharing it with someone, am I right?

Worse than all this though...apparently Amazon allows book sharing if you live in the United States. If you live anywhere else then no share for you. Sense anyone??

The whole thing is ridiculous; if I had purchased the physical book I could share it with anyone but the ebook can't be shared when it's the same story!!

Thumbs down Amazon. Grrrr!

Isaac wrote: "My day job takes up a lot of time, so really I can only write during the evenings. Which is fine by me! The dark suits me (plus it's easier to go a couple of hours without distraction).

But my ide..."

I can relate Isaac :)

Alex wrote: "Eldon wrote: ""That" tends to be another useless word in most cases."

'That' is one word I have been doing quite well at eliminating, I believe I've cut usage of it by over 50%, now if only I coul..."

ProWriting Aid could help you achieve that ;)

Theodore wrote: "Eldon wrote: ""That" tends to be another useless word in most cases."

That often is true...though there are exceptions. (;>)"

How true!

Does anyone have a specific time of day where they're most creative? I tend to write my best stuff first thing in the morning.

Any one else?

Mary Ellen wrote: "If human editors aren't catching those words try ProWritingAid. It taught me my overused words...just is my downfall. I ran a 92,000 word manuscript through PWA and went down to 89,000 just (lol) b..."

I'm a fellow believer in ProWriting Aid...it's well worth the investment :)

"That" tends to be another useless word in most cases.