I published my first book, The Lady and the Tiger...Moth on Amazon over a month ago, and have had no purchases yet. Heart breaking.
Of course, although I announced it to the various Kindle message boards, I haven't had much other chance to market it. I've been traveling with relatives for the last month, so the website I should have done for it has been hanging fire.
I'm still at a relative's house, and won't be home for good until Wednesday. Then I'll get my girdle in gear and get the websites finished - for the book, and also for all of my blogs.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Needs must when the devil vomits into your teacup
As Blackaddder used to say.
A couple of weeks ago I published my first full-length novel, The Lady and the Tiger Moth (under the pseudonym Caroline Miniscule.) Reaction? Nil.
Two people have bought it - but only because they were Kindle publishers who presumably wanted to see what a graphic novel on Kindle looked like.
I posted the news of the event in various Kindle-centric message boards, to no response.
I had priced the book at $4.99, because I had had to pay an illustrator $750 to create the initial 30 strips that I used to open the book, and I thought a $3.00 royalty on each book sold was fair.
But no one bought it.
So I decided what the hell, since no one was buying it, make it really cheap. A 30 cent royalty was better than no royalty.
So I tried to drop the price of the book down to 99 cents, so I could submit it to all these Kindle blogs that rave on about free and 99 cent books on the Kindle, but for some reason I couldn't, the lowest they'd let me drop it down to as $1.99.
So, that'll be the price in a couple of days when the price change takes effect. I'll only make 30 cents royalty, but now at least maybe someone will buy it.
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A couple of weeks ago I published my first full-length novel, The Lady and the Tiger Moth (under the pseudonym Caroline Miniscule.) Reaction? Nil.
Two people have bought it - but only because they were Kindle publishers who presumably wanted to see what a graphic novel on Kindle looked like.
I posted the news of the event in various Kindle-centric message boards, to no response.
I had priced the book at $4.99, because I had had to pay an illustrator $750 to create the initial 30 strips that I used to open the book, and I thought a $3.00 royalty on each book sold was fair.
But no one bought it.
So I decided what the hell, since no one was buying it, make it really cheap. A 30 cent royalty was better than no royalty.
So I tried to drop the price of the book down to 99 cents, so I could submit it to all these Kindle blogs that rave on about free and 99 cent books on the Kindle, but for some reason I couldn't, the lowest they'd let me drop it down to as $1.99.
So, that'll be the price in a couple of days when the price change takes effect. I'll only make 30 cents royalty, but now at least maybe someone will buy it.
_______________
Subscribe to our other blogs on Kindle:
Seaborn: Oceanography Blog
Star Trek Report: Space Sciences
Volcano Seven: Treasure and Treasure Hunters
Rush Limbaugh Report
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