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JA's book, "On Dark Shores" makes #1 on an Amazon list!!
Thank you Amy!!That's the Family Saga list (!) -at the moment it's up to 22 in thegeneral list UK Kindle Bookstore's Free eBooks list so am very excited.
I swear, since 10am Thursday it's been downloaded NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR times - and it was at 886 before we sat down for dinner tonight! No idea how long it will continue to be free for but hopefully that will get the word out about bk2 better than I ever could have done...
If I was getting paid for any of these I'd be ordering in the champagne - as is, I'm telling everyone I can think of whilst trying to get that damn short story formatted while ODS is still in the spotlight!!
Cool though - even if only ten people out of every hundred downloads read it, that'd still be WAY cool!
SO random. No idea why it's free unless they're price-matching - but am going to ask them where they found it free as only thing I can think of is that it must have been pirated somewhere.
Ah well, that's made my day and no mistake!
JAC
Sometimes, mysterious things happen that turn out great. This is one of them. Very good!Splitter
Well I'm dead chuffed! Panicking trying to get the short story done to standard in the time left though - as have no idea how long that will be!! Argh!!JAC
Good grief! Now up to 1007 copies downloaded - since Thursday morning! Well now it's hit its first thousand I can go to bed and stop watching the reports page, anyhow...
Have a good evening all!
JAC
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YAY!! Congratulations JA! Couldn't have happened to a better gal! You must be over the moon! :)Keep smiling!
Congratulations!!!!! You totally deserve it!!!!!
Thanks guys!!As of 2mins back, it was at 1373 "sales" in the UK, 20 in the US and ODS is currently #1 on the UK site for both Fantasy and Family Saga, and #11 in the Top 100 Free in Kindle Store?!
Good Grieef!!!
JAC
Amy wrote: "Check it out!http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestseller..."
That is so awesome! Congratz! Wooot! Break out the champagne anyways I say ;D
Thank you all! It's a bit mental how fast it's going.Currently on 1508 "sales" - since Thursday morning - and it's up to #8 in the Kindle Free store on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestseller...
Turns out, I'm not that good a saleswoman but I can give 'em away with some success....
heheheh
JAC
Once you are a household name they'll be begging to pay ;D
That's awesome! Congrats - hopefully word will get out and people will start buying it like crazy over here in the US, too!
5 star rating and ahead of a 2 star rated book, eitherway its good to screencap print it and poster it on your wall haha"Das, the Kindle Store on Amazon.co.uk is for UK customers only."
Man, way to kill my buzz :(
I know what you mean, David - there was the full set of Heyers going for 99p a go on Amazon.com and I could only get the ones at four quid a go on .co.uk!!!BTW, just hit 2000 downloads....still at #7...
JAC
Congratulations on the success your book is achieving J.A. I'm very pleased for you, best wishes, Stephen Livingston.
Thanks Stephen! I'm pretty chuffed! No idea why it's free, but still chuffed! Alas, the minute people have to pay for it it's likely to drop right off the map again but one can hope of course...!
JAC
J.A. wrote: "I know what you mean, David - there was the full set of Heyers going for 99p a go on Amazon.com and I could only get the ones at four quid a go on .co.uk!!!BTW, just hit 2000 downloads....still a..."
That's fantastic, JA. Way to go!
Thanks guys! Not that I got over-excited and couldn't sleep, but as of 1am this morning I was on 2244 copies and still at #7 in the Kindle Top 100 Free - best screencap it in case it's peaked methinks! Whilst still advertising like crazy in case it hasn't, of course...JAC
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That is a great place to be! People will see it on there long enough and start to remember your name. Hurry and get those shorts out quick while your name is still hot, and get some more promotion for yourself!!
Congrats! Wow, to think we knew you before you were famous ...
yeh but you'll probably still know me in about 3 weeks after I was famous, too!That said, now at #5 and up to 2902....
JAC
don't forget us JA on your rise to fame...
J.A. wrote: "Thanks guys!!As of 2mins back, it was at 1373 "sales" in the UK, 20 in the US and ODS is currently #1 on the UK site for both Fantasy and Family Saga, and #11 in the Top 100 Free in Kindle Store?..."
That's fantastic news, JA. Now, JKR had better watch out.
Back to #6 and 3329 - on the wane, possibly... Still kicks ass though!JAC
OK, I don't want to break the bubble here... I mean, congrats for the deal, but... I found out that free reads don't really bring in paying readers. I have many free reads (not on Amazon, because they haven't figured out that my novella is free elsewhere, including Barnes&Nobles, haha) and if I had actually sold those, I'd have over 2000 new readers. Except they don't buy the other titles.
So either I suck (and you don't, so you've just earned yourself new readers! ;-)) or there are two kinds of readers: the ones that go only for freebies, and the real ones that stick around and buy anything you put out.
But that's only my experience of six months, so maybe it's just me!
Best of luck for your book! :-D
No matter what JA it has been fun and you have got your book into lots of hands!!
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Barbara wrote: "OK, I don't want to break the bubble here... I mean, congrats for the deal, but... I found out that free reads don't really bring in paying readers. I have many free reads (not on Amazon, because ..."
Well, personally, I'll grab a lot of freebies if they look interesting ... that said, once I've read it and if I like it, I'll go back out and buy the other books from an author; but keep in mind that sometimes it takes awhile for a person to get to all these books ... I've downloaded literally THOUSANDS of ebooks over the past year or so ... some of them I'm quite interested in reading, but I have a lot of read/reviews I need to get through.
Oh bugger. I mailed them to ask if they were pricematching somewhere and if so where, and they went "WHOOOPS!" and knocked it back up to full-price. And to add insult to injury, they've dropped it by 16k places because it hasn't "sold" anything in the past week!!How rude!
Still, it was fun while it lasted and am still much more widely seen for being in the top 10, so I'm sad it stopped but well chuffed that it ran to a total of 3887 copies while it was free!
Barbara, I'm quite sure you're right but just for the publicity I'm pleased.
....and now I'm a little less hurried and stressed about getting the next one out, so it's all good.
Back to the day-job, alas!
JAC
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But it was fun riding that wave! You will always be a number 1 to us!! :)
J.A. wrote: "Oh bugger. I mailed them to ask if they were pricematching somewhere and if so where, and they went "WHOOOPS!" and knocked it back up to full-price. And to add insult to injury, they've dropped it ..."I guess Katy is right too... but it's frustrating for an author seeing thousands of downloads and not one review! :-(
Anyway, hopefully those readers will get back to us, eventually...
Keep your chin up, Barbara - there are more "mes" than you would think ... LOL I know I downloaded a book a few days ago and, since it was a short, took a break from editing to eat and read it while I was doing so; I was really impressed, immediately wrote a review and posted it all over the place AND wrote to the author to tell him how much I liked it. So, there's sure to be a "me" for you out there - just give it time! (BTW, it was "Stain of Mind," a horror short told from the mind of a serial killer - pretty cool. Link: Stain of Mind - a short story It was free on Amazon - it is the only one of its type he's written, but he has several thrillers that look good and on which I have my eye for next time I have a bit of jingle-jangle burning a hole in my pocket LOL)
Oooooh look! Dunno if it'll still be up by the time you lot look but someone just tweeted me to say I'm #1 on the Amazon.co.uk Movers and Shakers list!!http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and...
How funny...!
Done the cover for my short story - now if I can just get a bit of sneaky editing in, I might get it online before too long!
JAC
J.A. wrote: "Oooooh look! Dunno if it'll still be up by the time you lot look but someone just tweeted me to say I'm #1 on the Amazon.co.uk Movers and Shakers list!!http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and......"
Sweeet! It's been 20 minutes and you're still there! That's awesome!!
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Now 'chuffed' would be the perfect word to use in this situation, right? HAHAHA!!
I think that merits a "dead chuffed" and in extreme cases of flabbergasted delight, possibly even "chuffed to buggery".Metaphorical use, of course!!
heheheh
Oh dear I should have been in bed three hours ago. If I go RIGHT now, I may get3 hours sleep, assuming I go straight to sleep for once (highly unlikely, usually takes an hour). Tomorrow is going to be a looooooooooooong day!
JAC
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HOORAYYYY! Congrats on hitting number 1!!!!Get that other sotry up and have another!
J.A. wrote: "Oooooh look! Dunno if it'll still be up by the time you lot look but someone just tweeted me to say I'm #1 on the Amazon.co.uk Movers and Shakers list!!http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and......"
Congratulatio Maximus! Not only No. 1, but a 5-star rating. Way to go, JA.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestseller...