…among the truisms offered to we wet-behind-the-ears quill-scrapers when first we dare to step on to the self-publishing carousel is that the best way to sell books is to keep writing more books… the same scribblers’ wisdom avers that once yeez’ve cracked yer third title and got that up and running, things begin to take on some momentum… this ol’ Jurassic’s not so ‘umble view is that p’raps the preface to these bon mots should be, ‘at least produce sum’thing halfway decent to read’… nonetheless (LUV that WURD–‘nonetheless’— is there a counterpoint WURD, ‘somethemore’?)… nonetheless, recently, I’m beginning to think there may be more than a modicum of proof in the sagely advice… lots of yeez, kind enuff to follow my blog, know that I ventured on to the Amazon Kindle Free Promo recently with my third Jack Calder crime thriller masterpiece, SAVAGE PAYBACK… it was the first time that particular title had been on the giveaway shelf… previous novels, THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY and VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK were on the Free Program a few times in the last coupla years and did fine, thank yeez very much, but… and here’s the big ‘but’… they did nothing spectacular post-giveaway… comes now the latest sally… and behold and lo… after-sales have kicked in more than satisfactorily… although the correlation of freebie drawdowns to reviews on Amazon have been perplexing… only three reviews directly from a total of 6,000+ given away… (nudge, nudge to emb’dy who nabbed a freebie, and feels any twinge of literary conscience—reviews are an Author’s life-blood, thanks)… however, I do believe the cascading has begun… not only has SAVAGE PAYBACK seen the afterglow, but the ‘back list’ is also benefitting… the steady off-take is gratifying… so, if yeez are swithering on ‘do-I-or-don’t-I’ for Freebies, I’d recommend yeez go for it… oh, and the best way to sell yer books is to write more books… and…and…and… once yeez have at least three titles out there, stuff’ll improve… where did I read that before?… see yeez later… LUV YEEZ!…
Amazon links:
Savage Payback : http://amzn.to/1oyHNah
Vengeance Wears Black : http://amzn.to/W59BB3
The Violin Man’s Legacy : http://amzn.to/10wnMXB
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Seumas – only the Vengeance Wears Black link is working 🙂
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..Hi, Chris… very weird… I tried and also got an ‘error ‘ page first time with Violin Man’ just now, but when I cut and pasted it, voila, there it was .. temporary connection glitch I hope … thanks, that man 🙂
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Welcome 😀
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..right … think I’ve kinda figured it out,,, the links via the ‘Book.me’ route seems to be tenuous now, so I’ve reverted to the bitly links and edited the post accordingly …thanks for that :):)
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That’s your Amazon USA links available now Seumas, now all you need are the links for UK, Canada, Australia and the rest of the Amazon world, plus B&N, etc. LOL 😀
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yes ..I’ve found that the savvy readers who click on amazon .com and belong to another amazon market will actually look for the book in their own arena… the pages at least carry the descriptive piece, so no worries there :):) don’t want to overload the ‘instructions’ 🙂
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Reblogged this on theowlladyblog.
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Excellent. I’ve written 4 books in a pariah genre and I have to say, I have experienced a small… sort of… liftette in sales so yes, I think you’re right, I think there is something in the adage that the more books you write the closer you get to earning a living.
Cheers
MTM
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..well, it seemed to work for ol’ Billy Shakespeare. m’Lady 🙂
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