What can I say? It’s been a great year for me as an author and for my book, Stealing Wishes. As many know, I’ve documented my publishing journey over the past year here as the POD Diary. From pulling my hair out while creating my own book cover over a year ago to recording every [...]
Like many of you, I’ve been patiently waiting to receive my March royalties I earned from Kindle sales. March proved to be one of the biggest months for authors as far as earnings are concerned due to the release of the Kindle 2. For those who may have missed this bit of information from my previous posts and are wondering why I said March, Amazon.com pays you 60 days after the end of a month,which is why we are just now getting paid our March royalties.
Today, like every day, I checked my Amazon.com sales rank and discovered it had bumped up quite a bit. I’m now at 101,491. Now as I’ve discussed in the past, this might very well mean I’ve sold just one copy over the weekend, or even up to 5 copies. And chances are the rank will fall fast unless another copy sells today.
The full version of Cheryl Anne Gardner’s review was posted on PodPeep today.
Cheryl Anne Gardner from Podpeep reviewed Stealing Wishes and loved it.
I don’t know why I never got this done earlier, but the Search Inside feature got added to my book today on Amazon. I’ve always been a big advocate of this option, but honestly could never figure out how to do it myself.
I received February’s Kindle payment today. $86.45 total. February was my best month at the time, but was beaten out by March. April sales have already beat that too. But, let’s update my figures with today’s payment.
I’m just a few days away from my next Kindle payment. This one will be for sales made in the month of February, totaling $86.45. Lulu is also reporting 2 book sales from the UK since I last updated, but it’ll be a while before I see that money since that’s only $1.34. The best news so far came last week when I noticed my Amazon sales rank went way up. I was hovering around 1.5 million, but I shot up to 180,000 just in a few days. Here’s the proof…
My free book campaign from last month continues to slowly pay off. I received another 5 star review this week on Amazon from a reader I don’t know. I say that because although reviews from friends and family are great, you know those people will always give you a high rank. That’s great and all, but the “stranger” reviews hold a bit more merit. I’d like to point out that I’ve actually never met in person any of the 7 people who have reviewed Stealing Wishes. I do know two of them, but only through email or online chat.
No joking! March was a great month for me and the book. Sure, I didn’t make the Lambda Literary Award finals, but that’s okay. Read an Ebook Week definitely ignited something in me. I started by making the Ebook version of Stealing Wishes free on both Lulu and on Smashwords. I’ll admit…not one single sale! You heard me…I couldn’t give the book away.
It's the shortest month of the year, but it's still going to be packed with content here at LLBR. Reviews, Part 2 in our Book Synthesis Feature, Julie's Quick Picks, and answers to The New Podler's Q&A Self-Publishing Symposium!
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