I realized I hadn’t done a sales/progress update in six months, so I figured I’d wrap the first half of 2017 into a single post. Kindle Direct Publishing recently overhauled their author dashboard and made a lot of improvements to the way data is handled and displayed. As a result I’ve all but abandoned the[…]
Thank you. Just… thank you. To the thousands (yes, that’s thousands, plural, and I’m still in disbelief) of readers who have picked up one or more of my books. This month, for the first time ever, it has become unwieldy to count my exact unit sales. Suffice it to say my writing income has tripled[…]
I continue to be amazed, astonished, floored, and [insert myriad other adjectival synonyms] about the direction in which things are moving. Amazon-only sales further increased from 344 units in July to 464 in August across all my titles, and now nearly halfway through September it seems sales will surpass that record yet again. In doing[…]
I have been editing for close to three weeks now, and not a day passes where I can’t wait to get back to writing. I’m outlining a new Urban Fantasy series as I edit, and as a result I’ll have the most detailed scaffolding I’ve ever created for the first three books in the series[…]
I am absolutely terrible at keeping up with my blog. This is known. There’s always so much else to be done, I kind of forget about staying up on my progress posts. That’s what this is about though, so let’s dig in. Since my last sales update in December 2015, I’ve written a serial and[…]
As soon as the 90-day KDP Select period ended for The Shepherd, I threw it on Smashwords for free and sent Amazon a couple of notifications using the “tell us about a lower price” link on the book’s product page. I had heard that price-matching is often more effective when you contact Amazon directly through[…]
I ran my first-ever Kindle Countdown Deal last week for The Infernal Lands. The promotion ran for seven days, with a price that incremented from 0.99¢ up to the book’s regular price of $4.99. In hindsight, I should’ve left the price at 0.99¢ for the duration of the promo. Thanks in large part to a helpful[…]