Hey All.
Here we are again with a break down of the things I did for the release of Wish Hits the Fan and how it's panned out so far.
Starting last Thursday, I placed Wish in One Hand as free for 5 days (the max Amazon allows for) and both In Deep Wish and Up Wish Creek as 99c/.99p for 7 days (max for a Kindle Countdown Deal).
I didn't set any advertising for Thursday, but I did kind of blitz Facebook and Twitter. I ended up with 360 copies of WIOH out the door that day, and sold 25 copies of the other Once Upon a Djinn books.
Friday, my first ads went up at Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Bargains and Author's Billboard. 235 copies of WIOH went out and I sold 11 copies of the others.
Saturday, more ads for PUFB and another ad at ebookdealsdaily.com. 82 copies of WIOH, 11 sales.
Sunday, no ads but additional FB and Twitter stuff. 50 copies of WIOH, and 9 sales.
Monday, the final ad at PUFB began. 36 WIOH, 2 sales.
Tuesday, the last day of the PUFB ad. 2 sales.
Wrapped into all of that are the 3500 pages read through Kindle Unlimited.
So, basically, I spent $28 on advertising and made a little over double that. Which is about what one should expect from advertising dollars, I guess. I'm hoping for some additional residual sales as people who picked up WIOH read it and buy the others, and as people who downloaded the books for KU, read pages and I get credit for those. We'll see.
I also saw some activity for my other non-OUAD books. The only book out of the nine that had no activity was Dying Embers, so that's something. And I saw more activity from other countries - UK, CA, AU, and Japan, of all places. :shrug:
It wasn't an explosion of sales for release day - I only moved 16 copies of WHTF - but I'm calling it a win. Especially considering that prior to this, I'd only sold like 85 books total over the first 8 books this whole year.
Still not sure what's up next. I really need to get back to work on finishing Early Grave. And then edits for Sleeping Ugly. And writing the next book in Dennis Haggarty's world. First, though, I have to find a way to recharge my gumption hump.
Okay, that's it. Any questions?
I got hit with a burst of inspiration yesterday which really helped. I hope I can find more today. That's the only think I know to do to get me off high-center and back in the groove. It's gonna be really hot or I'd suggest you go fishing and think about plots and characters while you are drowning worms.
ReplyDeleteYou'll find it. *nods*
Yay for inspiration! I hope you found a whole mother lode of it. Still too hot to drown worms, but it's getting there.
ReplyDeleteI found it. I've gotten about 3K more words written on Early Grave since Wednesday. And I had an epiphany - which I forgot to write down and now can't remember what it was. I'll get it. At least I remembered that I had one. LOL