First, the contest is still open on my Pick a Cover post. Thus far, I have two votes for A on the blog, one private vote for C, and one private vote for either C or D. (Yes, I will take private votes - especially if you're not interested in entering the contest.) I'll most likely close it up on Friday and announce a winner on Monday.
Next, I'm 29% done on the read-through, note-making stage of Early Grave. And I got with my editor, who will take the first round of EG when I'm ready to send it. I'm hoping to get thru this phase by Saturday and then use the next two weeks to make all the changes, so I can have this to her after she finished up with Blink and the end of the month.
This year is on track. So far. Fingers crossed it stays this way.
My big sales extravaganza at the end of 2017 wrapped up the end of the year nicely. Surprising since I didn't put any advertising in place for that one and only did some stuff on FB and Twitter. That blog review really helped, although it wasn't planned or even expected until it happened. Unfortunately, that's where the sales ended - last year. I had kinda hoped for some residual stuff. :sigh:
Anyway, I'm going to try not to worry about that stuff. I mean, I'm still going to advertise when I can and junk, but I'm working on not sweating the lack of sales. My books are out there. More will be out there this year. Different stuff, similar stuff. Blink is definitely different stuff. Early Grave is the third book in the SCIU series, but with Ned Washington as the main character. Then I plan on publishing Sleeping Ugly - which is a paranormal but not djinn. And if I can manage to get some inspiration somewhere and finish it, the third book in the Dennis Haggarty series should round out 2018. If not, I might go ahead with another dystopian - Unequal. Time will tell.
Those are about all the things I can think of at the moment. Any questions?
No questions. Glad you got an uptick on your sales at the end of the year. I'm going to remain neutral on the cover thing. I'm not sure I know enough about the book--though the snippet you posted on my blog today is totally covered in awesomesauce!!!--to pick a cover that would be representative. You have a good handle on your publishing plan for this year. Good for you! Now enjoy this day of warm weather and then get to work editing!
ReplyDeleteYay for your sales! May they start rolling in again soon!
ReplyDeleteThe week I released Magic's Child, I held a sale on Illusion's Child for two weeks - sold one copy in all that time. But *after* the sale ended, my Kindle read-pages across all my fiction went up. Too weird.