Wednesday check-in
Here’s a quick update on Clary Books and me. Into the Rift is live and has had its first free days on Amazon. So far there has been one sale and fewer than 50 free downloads. Which means no one … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Sales
KDP Select
Like a lot of self-published authors, I am trying an experiment for Last Night in Amazon’s KDP Select Program. Since sales have been bouncing around the floor, and all the downloads I get elsewhere are freebies, I figure I’ve got … Continue reading →
Sales update (and info on Smashwords)
Turns out I didn’t understand how to read the Smashwords dashboard. The 144 free downloads for Last Night were downloads directly from Smashwords, but a chart on a separate page shows another 193 downloads through the Smashwords premium program. For … Continue reading →
2011 Results
Last year I took my first steps into self-publishing, uploading one short story and then adding two re-vamped public domain farm and garden books. Though I felt the expected rush of joy when I made my story available to the … Continue reading →
And a new month begins…
So, Camp NaNoWriMo is over, and to no one’s surprise I didn’t hit 50,000 words. I have never yet hit 50,000 words in a month, though I haven’t given up trying. I did get a good bit of work done … Continue reading →
Checking in
I’ve been neglecting the blog posts as I work through NaNo Camp and also continue a new PD garden book (the next one is the first volume of Cassell’s Popular Gardening, a huge turn-of-the-century English gardening encyclopedia). Monster projects, both … Continue reading →
June Sales
June was not particularly good for Last Night, with zero sales at B&N again, and Amazon sales dropping to zero as well. Free downloads at Smashwords rose a bit, to 29. And the story was accepted into the premium catalog, … Continue reading →
May Sales
May was the first month of my self-publishing adventure. I have one short story out. In May I had 3 sales at .99 cents in Amazon US, none in the UK or DE stores. Also zero sales at B&N. The … Continue reading →