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Erica wrote: "Sorry, Sam...that really stinks...*hugs*"Thanks, Erica. Hugs
Carole wrote: "Speedy repairs to your wallet and cars."Thank you, Carole, Hugs Working on it.
Alex wrote: "D.J. wrote: "Medium is sending me $34.06 this month. That's the most I've had so far. Thanks everyone who took the time to clap and interact with my posts."Congrats, that's awesome. Shows that yo..."
great news, DJ, congratulations
My short story Rebirth (published in Lit Up on Medium) received the following comment from a reader:"Your story made me stop and think about life and what it’s all about."
Wow . . . I couldn't ask for higher praise than that!
Nice one Dale.Thanks Judy.
Here's a family one.
https://medium.com/@debzcooper/a-chan...
And a rant about motorists.
https://medium.com/@debzcooper/white-...
Dale wrote: "My short story Rebirth (published in Lit Up on Medium) received the following comment from a reader:"Your story made me stop and think about life and what it’s all about."
Wow . . . I couldn't a..."
Dale, congratulations on your Editor Choice awards for January, 2018, from Indies Unlimited.
Oh my gosh . . . have they announced a new set of winners? I'll have to go look. Thanks, everyone!
I also got an honorable mention for 1/20/2018. Personally I liked that story better than the story for the week I won, but I won't complain. ;-)
Congratulations, Dale! Hugs
Just received a call from a local newspaper reporter, asking if I were available to be interviewed for a story she wanted to write about my flash fiction series of anthologies. She said she'd like to do something for August, so we're getting together on the phone this Thursday morning. In the meantime, she sent me a list of more than ten questions on topics she wanted to discuss related to my background, the use of photographic prompts, the mix of fact and fiction, and so forth.Should be fun. BTW, one of the flash fiction stories in Book 4 of my series features, by name, a merchant in the area served by the newspaper. This, apparently, was the "hook" that garnered the call from the reporter.
Thanks, folks, and congratulations, Ted! Sounds like a great opportunity.
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Thanks, Dale and Carole.Let's see what happens. There's not such thing as bad publicity.
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Erica wrote: "Congrats on your award, Dale and great news about your interview, Ted! Best of luck. :)"Thank you!
Erica wrote: "Congrats on your award, Dale and great news about your interview, Ted! Best of luck. :)"Thanks, Erica.
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom, Writer, Hugger) wrote: "Carole wrote: "Speedy repairs to your wallet and cars."Thank you, Carole, Hugs Working on it."
So sorry to hear that awful figure! I wish you what Carole wished you!
Thank you, Anna! Hugs
Theodore wrote: "Just received a call from a local newspaper reporter, asking if I were available to be interviewed for a story she wanted to write about my flash fiction series of anthologies. She said she'd like ..."Hey! Good for you, Ted! And you are quite right...any publicity is super!
Something good? I made some sales.Departing from my belief that it is not right to give my much-loved book away as a freebie - it's worth more... etc., etc., I put it on a 3 day freebie. There's more info about this on another thread.
The good news is that I've sold something like 30 of my other books at the same time and the sales are still coming in. I haven't yet covered the cost of the advertising...
Still - I'm enjoying thinking it's good news!
Yeah but 30 sales? Well done. I think I may have that many for the last two years in total!
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In the interests of accuracy, I had another count up of sales of other books on my freebie days and the following days. It's 60.I'm always a bit cautious...
But something good definitely happened - yay!
I hope I can pass some fairy dust on to you.
Just released Book 5 in my flash fiction anthology series, Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Actually, the Kindle edition had been on pre-sale for three months so it went live at midnight. And when I couldn't sleep last night, I got up at 3:15 a.m. and hit the "publish" button on CreateSpace for the paperback edition . (;>) Never let any moss grow under your feet!
Alex wrote: "Congrats, Ted, I've just tweeted it from the Amazon page for you. If there's anything else I can do to help, just let me know."Thanks so much, Alex. That's very kind of you.
Have a great day.
Alex wrote: "I'm doing my best to, and no worries, we all have to support one another. A tweet from the Amazon page is easy to do."Much appreciated!
Anna Faversham wrote: "Something good? I made some sales.Departing from my belief that it is not right to give my much-loved book away as a freebie - it's worth more... etc., etc., I put it on a 3 day freebie. There's ..."
Congratulations on the sales. 30 isn't a bad number.
Anna Faversham wrote: "In the interests of accuracy, I had another count up of sales of other books on my freebie days and the following day. It's 60.I'm always a bit cautious...
But something good definitely happened..."
That's spectacular, Anna! Congratulations!
And best of luck with the anthology, Ted.
Well done Ted.It looks like I've got my first sale via the Amazon ads.
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D.J. wrote: "Well done Ted.It looks like I've got my first sale via the Amazon ads."
Thanks, DJ
Congratulations, Ted! Wonderful! Hugs
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Actually, the Kindle edition had been on ..."
Did I say congrats??? I thought I had!!
Thanks Sam and Carole. And yes, Carole, and you yelled at me! (;>)
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Carole wrote: "lol. I'm getting hard of hearing!!!"Ain't we all?!
Great news, Alex! Happy for you. Hugs
Oh what a lot of good news! Really happy for everyone.
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Thank you. I don't think you have to write that much for most publications, although you'd have to check their guidelines. I think Writing Cooperative will drop you if you go 90 days without submitting anything, but that allows for a pretty slow pace. Lit Up doesn't seem to have any particular submission rate requirements, although they don't currently accept Partner Program submissions. I think they are working on changing that in the near future, although I'm not sure.