Camp Nano ended in abject failure and I contemplate the future of the Maid Maleen project before discussing my hastily done promo for Aisuru. While the sales were pitiful, the ROI was great, though still a disappointment. Which leads into my last topic: where things stand with Girl in the Forest and the struggles of being fiscally responsible while also trying to produce great products and a great reader experience.
With little chance of “making it worse”, I decided to do a pair of experiments with free pulsing on Aisuru and tried out a blog tour book blitz. This episode is all about that, after a hefty section of news and notes. How did my experiments turn out? Let’s see… (side note: my mentions of the episode length in the episode are “off” as I clipped out some extra babbling 🙂 )
Today is the final day of Deviations’ Book Blitz. Huge thanks to all the blogs who participated and good luck to everyone entering the giveaway, which runs a few more days yet! Ali – The Dragon Slayer All in One Place Bibliophile Wonderland Reviews Blissfully Bookerized Chill Reviews Fiction Dreams Once Untold One Book Boyfriend At A Time Pretty little book reviews Romantic Fanatic Roxy’s Reviews Shooting Stars Reviews Teatime and Books The Avid Reader The Bookworm Lodge The Crafty Engineer’s Bookshelf The Recipe Fairy underneath the covers Whispered Thoughts a Rafflecopter giveaway
Nearing the end of Deviations book blitz, but there are still a few more stops to go! Such as these from today! A Book Addict’s Bookshelves Around the World in Books BethLee’s Book Blog Carries Book Reviews Extreme Bookaholics Les Chroniques Aléatoires (Facebook) Please Pass The Books Quesarasera Book Reviews Taking It One Book at a Time Those Crazy Book Chicks (Facebook) Tome Tender a Rafflecopter giveaway
Today was day three of Deviations book blitz! Here are the awesome blogs that Deviations “visited”! A British Bookworm’s Blog books and fandom Haddie’s Haven Kookie Krysp Reads StarAngels Reviews The Alchemy of Ink The Golden Scribbler There is also still plenty of time to enter the giveaway! Want to know what the mysterious assortment of Japanese treats will be including? Here is a picture of Deviations with all the yummy companions that will be shipping out to the winner! a Rafflecopter giveaway
Today was day two of Deviations book blitz! Here are the tour stops from the second day. Check them out for more excerpts and Q&As with me 😀 Bibliophile Mystery booklovercircumspect4 Girls With Books Musings From An Addicted Reader Naughty Book Eden Stardust Rabbit Blog The Writer’s Inkwell There is also still plenty of time to enter the giveaway! Keep an eye out tomorrow for a picture of the prize pack! a Rafflecopter giveaway
Deviations is getting out and about by going on a five-day Book Blitz, a kind of virtual book tour, with stops at nearly 100 blogs! Tour sites will be featuring quick bits about the book, excerpts, and author Q&As. During the week, Deviations will also be on sale for $2.99 (which was supposed to start March 27th, but apparently I botched the times, so it didn’t start until midnight, i.e. 3/28 – sorry about that!)! If you’d like to “follow” the tour, here are the stops from day 1! Adventures in Writing Book Junkie Reviews Books Over Sleep Bookworm for Kids […]
Celebrating my first year of being published and Aisuru’s first “birthday” with a look back at my indie writing journey so far, both good and bad, and realizing that maybe I’m doing a little better than I often think. I also share the planned online celebrations!
Giving my wrap up on how this year’s NaNo went before getting into a deep look at how Aisuru’s second promotion went, the “tail” results, and my overall take aways from it all.
Update on my progress for the first two days of NaNo and sharing the first, raw chapter of The Girl in the Forest. News & Notes: NaNo!! Introduction (for the uninitiated) Aisuru’s 99 cents sale is now underway and will continue through the 7th. As of this episode, 21 copies sold so already doing better than the last promo! Yay! A few more promo sites ran the promo on the 1st day, though still only had 3 sales total then. The rest have all been today so far. Girl in the Forest, reading of first chapter (raw!) Current Word Count: […]
This post is part of a series of posts about Aisuru’s big 2015 99¢ promotion. I thought this information may be useful to fellow indie authors and to readers who are curious about how it all works behind the scenes. 🙂 In part 1 of this series, I discussed how I decided the when of Aisuru’s upcoming sale, some of the prep work I did, and how I decided where to submit the sale for promotion. I also did a podcast episode where I discussed all of that and my increasing my mailing list as part of the prep. I also gave […]
After some nice Deviations updates and a few personal notes including NaNo talk, I share the details of Aisuru’s upcoming 99 cent sales and the promotional efforts that will be involved.