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[…]
So far I haven’t done a whole lot of advertising for my books. This is mostly because I think an author’s time is better spent writing until they’ve got several books out in a series. I’m about to publish the fourth novel in my Driftmetal series, and I’m still not sure I’ll do much promotion until the[…]
This is a general monthly update alongside an advertising update. I know it’s not the end of the month yet, but I’ve got enough data to do a quick post and give you a general idea of where I’m headed. I used two ad services this month to coincide with the release of the third[…]
Last month, I did an interview with the On Writing Blog. N.M. Sotzek is one of the first reviewers who took a chance on reading my work, and here we chat a little about the conception of the first book in the Aionach Saga, including a little background. Read the interview here.
As of this morning, Driftmetal is sitting at #1 in Steampunk. Thanks to at least two well-timed promotions, neither of which I had anything to do with, the first book in the series cracked the Top 500 overall in the Kindle Free Store and finally snagged the top spot in its category. It’s also on[…]
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[…]