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I woke up this morning and like every morning, the first thing I did after brushing my teeth and washing my face is go down to my office, wake my computer, and check my sales on KDP. Lo and behold, AFTER is moving copies. I also sold a few copies of INSECTLAND, DROP OUT, and SILENT INVASION, but AFTER is the winner today by far. So, I started thinking what I could have done differently the last few days that attracted the extra attention. I really haven’t been concentrating much on AFTER…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 24, 2012 at 10:48am — No Comments
I’ve wanted to be a published author since I was a little girl. Like most girls my age, I read every Judy Bolton and Nancy Drew mystery; they were among my most prized possessions. When I was ten years old, I submitted a poem I’d written to my Sunday school magazine. I can still remember how thrilled I was when I saw my name printed under the title. My first byline! Now, many years later (no need to tell how many), I feel…
ContinueAdded by Patricia Gligor on March 23, 2012 at 7:41am — No Comments
Okay, for all my new followers, here’s the raw deal of what I’ve done in the way of promotions in the last four months and what the results are. First were the fiver ads on fiver.com. For five bucks people put your books and links on their blogs and websites. I did about fifteen different blogs with little result. My advice; don’t waste that hard earned five bucks. Then I did the article service where an article is ghost-written for you and then sent to thousands of journal sites and logs.…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 22, 2012 at 2:23pm — No Comments
With all the hoopla surrounding my KDP select issue I almost forgot that one of my sponsorships started today. Here is the link for SILENT INVASION’s Frugal Ereader Book of the Day. http://thefrugalereader.com/2012/03/20/the-frugal-find-of-the-day-silent-invasion-neil-ostroff-1-99-or-borrow-free-with-prime/ I signed up for this sponsorship because it…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 20, 2012 at 2:40pm — No Comments
Well, I got my issue with KDP select solved… kinda. In a panic over the email I received, I quickly unpublished all my books from Smashwords, including my six that are in the premium catalog. I figured the trade-off was worth it considering I sell about five times as many books through Amazon. I also de-selected the automatic renewal for KDP select just in case any heat came down about my books being on Smashwords. Here’s the kicker. I got an email earlier today from KDP informing me that…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 18, 2012 at 2:05pm — No Comments
I just received a form email from KDP informing me that my titles on the select program were also discovered being sold by about a half a dozen different outlets, including Kobo and Nook. They gave me the sites to check out, which actually is pretty cool that my books are so readily available now, but also informed me that I was not following the policy. Now, I absolutely do not want to piss off Amazon and it’s too late to have Smashwords remove all my titles from all the sites, so I figured…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 16, 2012 at 1:27pm — No Comments
Right now, as I sit inside my house and write this, it’s 75 degrees and beautiful sunshine here in Penssylvania. A perfect day. So, why am in front of my computer writing this blog post? Because that’s the only way I’m going to sell books. And if I sell enough books I can enjoy the nice days for the rest of my life. But I haven’t gotten to that point yet, so here I am making my presence known. Sometimes, I think I’m wasting away my life sitting in this office writing stories. Truth is, I…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 14, 2012 at 2:23pm — 1 Comment
Just a quick reminder that INSECTLAND is free today on Kindle and deeply discounted on Smashwords. Get your copy now! Thanks
INSECTLAND
Imagine a world where humans are pests and insect-like aliens rule over them. Imagine that world is Earth.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005P81J48
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005P81J48…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 11, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Best self promotion!
It’s been a while since I posted all the sites I use to market and promote my books. I figured since I have so many new blog followers (I’m up to 111 so far; thanks all for following) it would help anyone looking for greats sites to promote on. I’m just going to list them in no particular order. They’re easy to sign up and have friendly people in their forums. I recommend you download all your books to these sites for the exposure. I also post my blog on…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 10, 2012 at 11:25am — No Comments
Okay, I admit it. I made a boo boo. I posted on the U.K. Amazon readers site by mistake. What I did was confuse the codes Kindle Boards uses to create a picture of the cover. I posted on the U.K. site that I was conducting an experiment to see if this worked and posted along with the links. Well, let me tell you what happened. I got so many vicious replies, people accusing me of trying to sneak in self promotion (as if that’s punishable by death), people reading the book samples and then…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 8, 2012 at 2:15pm — No Comments
Just a quick post to announce that I’ve put all my books up for Smashwords read an ebook a day promotion. Since I’ve been spending almost all of my time promoting Kindle and Amazon, this opens up a whole new readership with Nook and many other ereader devices. I’ve got a great author site where you can get my books on these devices for 25% off during this week! Just use the coupon posted on the site.…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 5, 2012 at 12:23pm — No Comments
I just checked KDP unit sales and I sold nine books yesterday. Four in the U.S. and five in the U.K. Three months ago, I’d be thrilled at those numbers, but after the last two months of relatively heavy sales, these seem kind of low. Now, my depression will set in until those numbers get back up into the twenties. Lately, I’ve noticed a building obsession with checking my sales throughout the day. Having the ability to see books downloaded in real time is an amazing tool for keeping track…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 3, 2012 at 11:26am — No Comments
I've completed chapter five of the Thrust and thanks to my editor Diane Reynolds I don't have to worry about mispelled words, funky sentences, or any other issues I may have typed up. Writers need their work edited before publishing, we all know the benefits. The question is when do you send your work off to the editor, when its completed or a few chapters at a time? The benefit of working with Diane is that she will accept my first five chapters, edit and return it for my review. I am a…
ContinueAdded by Ann Simpson on March 3, 2012 at 5:13am — No Comments
The Howling Cliffs is the 1st sequel to my award winning River Bones, a thriller.
Sara Mason’s dedication to solving missing person cold cases with love interest, Huxley Keane, includes accompanying him into the Vietnam jungle searching for his MIA brother’s remains. Their friend, Esmerelda, accompanies them. Her daughter was abducted along with Huxley’s brother. Scant remains are found and…
Added by Mary Deal on March 1, 2012 at 12:17pm — No Comments
The ebook version of DEGENERATES is finally live! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FFN5LY
Yeah! Now, comes the tedious part of releasing a new book. First, I have to place the cover, description, and link to purchase on all my author/writer sites of which I’m currently on thirty-two. (I will place a list of all the sites I belong to on a future post for reference.) Then, I’ve got to announce the book on all these sites plus another twelve…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on March 1, 2012 at 12:14pm — No Comments
“It’s not happening fast enough! It’s not happening fast enough!” Those were the complaints of Jim Morrison during the early days of the 1960’s rock band The Doors concerts. They had been together as a group for a mere seven months and Jim was getting antsy for them to get discovered. “Relax Jim,” Ray Manzareck (The keyboardist and discoverer of Jim’s song writing ability) replied. “All great things take time.”
Within the year the group was world famous and Jim Morrison became one of…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on February 27, 2012 at 12:29pm — No Comments
Find out for FREE! That’s right! Right now until Sunday night DREAM TRAVELER is absolutely free on Kindle! Get you copy now! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006F2AGUQ
Okay, now that the promotion is done, I’m also happy to write that I just finished the first draft of my new book IMAGINATION, my noir thriller, DEGENERATES is coming out in ebook format next week, and this blog is nearing 100,000 hits. Whew! The Fugal ereader book of the day…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on February 25, 2012 at 9:43am — No Comments
Added by Patricia Gligor on February 24, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments
In a move that may be smart or may be dumb, I’ve raised the prices of my books to $1.99. This, after reading several threads and discussions on the matter of pricing. Here’s the gist of my reasoning. There are a lot of ebooks out there nowadays, and as I’ve heard in many discussion groups, a good number are not well-written, not formatted correctly, and have covers that look homemade. These authors want to sell their books (we all do) so they price them at the lowest cost allowed by Amazon,…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on February 23, 2012 at 1:30pm — No Comments
I’ve been going sponsorship crazy and just booked three more sponsorships for KND and my newest discovery, Kindle Fire Department. Kindle Fire Department is a site for Kindle Fire owners, that is growing by leaps and bounds. Sponsorship is easy and relatively cheap (about $50). By getting in now, I locked in dates for sponsorship in May. I also booked sponsorship for SILENT INVASION on The frugal ereader.com ($50). I’m waiting to hear the date on that one. Some of the best sites like Pixels…
ContinueAdded by Neil Ostroff on February 21, 2012 at 11:24am — No Comments
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