Tuesday 11 December 2012

From somebody who enjoys reading...

Just received a lovely nice email from Judith Johnson of Toronto. She bought a copy of From the Chrysalis at the book launch on Nov 25:

I have just finished you book which I read in the last couple of days and I thought it was an extremely good read.  I connected with the characters and a couple of times I had to put the book down because of the suspense in the courtroom.  I think you crafted the story very well and the characters were real.  I usual go to the library once a week and pick out 6-7 novels of which I read between 4 or 5, as I read very quickly.  I only finish the books that catch my attention and give me enjoyment so I believe that I have the expertise to judge a well written book.  Your story I will remember for a long while as I often forget the plots of other novels.  The first chapter was captivating and I could not, then, put it down for a couple of hours.

Ann Turner tells me that you will be writing a sequel and I am dying to know what happens to Liza and Dace.

Thank you for your hard work and talent in giving me the pleasure of a really good read.





Saturday 1 December 2012

KDP Select Update

Warning: if you take a hiatus from KDP Select, your ranking will plummet. It's definitely a little disheartening, especially when your ranking falls over 500,000 points in one day. I'd only had one e-book sale in the past two or three days, but how is such a precipitous drop possible?

(Whew--I just re-checked and apparently that was just a one day glitch! It's dropped, but not nearly that much. Maybe something else was going on.)

I'm busy promoting the paperback version of From the Chrysalis right now, so I have mixed feelings about the e-book version anyway. It's not like it cost me anything to upload the e-book or that I'm warehousing a bunch of books I can't sell. (On-line paperback sales are slow to show up in the rankings, even though I know I've had some.)

My private sales remain good, but none of these will be reflected in my on-line Amazon ranking.

Anyway--I still believe From the Chrysalis will find its target audience.

The people who have read it (as opposed to the massive number of people who downloaded it when it was free), have loved it.

I'll have to get cracking on the sequel. For some reason, when an author has more than one title, Amazon sales often soar. (Not that care about the money right now. Popularity is something else, though.)