The Kindle Daily Nation sponsorship for DEGENERATES yielded
okay results. I was hoping for a few more sales than I actually made, but at
least the exposure was good. It caused several dozen more hits on my blog than
usual and I have now surpassed the 170,000 hit mark. That’s a lot of hits, but
even with that I didn’t reach my total sales goals for the month. Though I did
have enough that I’m pretty satisfied a momentum will build over time. I’ve
also discovered that posting on Amazon.com meet our authors forum and KDP
boards actually do get results. I stopped posting for a few days because of
real-life work related issues and then started posting again the other day. I
did see sales increase after posting. Keep in mind, I don’t recommend self-promoting
as a topic of discussion because you can get some pretty mean replies. But
there are many topics set up for authors to self-promote without fear of
repercussion. I blast out a different book each day and then monitor to see if
the sales have increased more for that book. I also keep track of what sites to
promote on and then alternate so I can see which sites get results. I have seen
pretty good sales from this technique, almost as good as paying for
sponsorship. As I continue to promote (which is easy when we’re sweltering on
the east coast), I’m also getting ready to publish PULP in ereader form. Unlike
my other novels published through iuniverse, PULP was never in electronic
format. It should be interesting to see how that one sells. I’m excited to see
the cover. As always, I recommend Judy Bullard. She’s done all of mine.
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