After two years in Canada you think I would be used to the holidays but well? Today is a civic holiday called Civic holiday. Basically it is a day off for those who work in offices I think. I know my hubby has to work today as do his friends, so is it really a holiday? I don’t know.
Well the free promo of One More All Hallows Eve did really well. One day promo had 173 downloads and one review. That story now has five total reviews, all four and five stars. The new one wanted more Harry…which of course is what the other free promo was. Hope Everlasting is the second story in the Guardians of the Gate City series and it isn’t dong too bad either. So far 92 downloads and I gave it a full week so by the end of the week I expect to see more downloads and hopefully a review or three.
I decided that August is going to be my free month for sure. Obviously had Hallows up and have Hope up but next week I plan on putting Partings up for two more days, then well have Sacrifice up for three days and finally that attempt at breaking into a different genre with Distance (my erotica) going up for free the 20th through the 24th. Here is hoping it will get some notice and maybe some actual sales.
Been working on the Chaos war like a good doobie. This is definitely going to be a longer tale. The first part is all ready past 30 pages in word. Now I found out that the page length in word does not translate to an exact amount of pages on Kindle. 8 pages at 14 point font is 14 pages on the kindle.
I usually type at 10 point and then adjust when I go to publish. I do want to finish this story. I started it back at the turn of the century! Yeah that was a while ago. Not the longest it has taken me to write a story, we know that but it needs to get written. After all I have so many other stories to write, publish and sell. Well hopefully sell.
I love the encouragement I get over on the amazon MOA discussions. The men and women over there are really a great resource for an indie writer. Most of us have been writing for a long time but actually putting those stories up for sale? It is harder than people think. In this world of instant gratification it is still hard to wait to see a sale come in. With Amazon you get a nice little report you can pull up any time to see how the downloads are going. Yes they are slow but it has been only been since April right?
My traditional published book, Gates, I sent an email to my publisher to find out how I could get a report to see how well my efforts were working. Well you don’t get to find out for a YEAR. Yes I said a YEAR! Okay I wont get upset. After all Gates is just one of the books I put out. People have bought it yes. After all it has a ranking in both ebook and paperback. So I just have to be nice and patient. I will just focus on writing and promoting and hoping I actually sell enough to pay one bill sometime this year.
Okay I should probably type up my notes on Chaos from last night and then figure out how to get the next important scene set up. When writing a short you can really just dump the reader right into the scene but a longer story needs set up and that takes time. I don’t think I will ever write something over 200 pages but you never know.
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