Hi Friends –
Just wanted to throw out a quick note about A Reason to Live. Thanks in large part to your support, I’ve been on a great sales run this week, averaging about 2-3 per hour on Amazon. Those kinds of numbers have resulted in some great results:
#2,674 Paid in Kindle Store (as high as the #1,700’s)
#15 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Hard-Boiled (as high as #6)
#20 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Mystery & Thrillers > Mystery > Hard-Boiled (as high as #12)
I’m looking into various strategies to try and keep the energy going, including some ad space on Goodreads. I’ll try to do a post-mortem for everyone once the dust settles (assuming it does!).
I hope to have Part II of my book cover primer out tomorrow. This time I’ll talk about cover images . Keep an eye out!
Big congrats, Matt. This is fantastic news and I hope the sales keep rolling!
Thanks, Stan. It’s been exciting! Now I just have to remember to put a damn title on my blog posts…
Hah! I noticed that. Mine came in by email titled “1934.”
But I tell you what, I’d trade non-titled blog posts for selling 2-3 books per hour any day of the week!
Well deserved! I am so happy to hear of your success!
Thanks, Linda! I’m having a lot of fun with it, but my family is getting a little tired of hearing my verbal sales updates every 5 minutes, lol.
Well done you! It must be lovely to see those sales figures going up. 🙂
Thanks, Kat. It’s great and rewarding, but I have to admit it was (nearly) as fun to see the 12k copies go out free…it’s a neat feeling to think that many people had enough of an interest in my book to snag it.
WOOTS! I’m really pleased for you.
When my own dust cloud settles, I’ll get the blog reviews posted! The good news is that they’re written, just need to type them!
Thanks so much, Rose!
Those reviews will be welcome. As my wife said, “Twenty reviews just looks better than nineteen,” and she’s right. There’s a little corner you turn where–unless you have a very large family–your reviews have to be coming from unbiased sources and that’s a good sign for other readers.
Thanks for all your support along the way!