(This image was taken at 9:30 am Sept. 1st. 113 sales by that time, and still climbing)
Well my books have been live for over a week now. I thought I would share some information on my book launch and what I've been doing to get the word out.
First off, download amounts. As of this morning around 9:30 I have a total of 443 downloads of my free book for the last 8 days. Rise of a Guardian is #2 in one of it's categories and #3 in the other. I'm very pleased with these numbers as I haven't done a ton of paid promotions.
Steps I took to spread the word on the launch:
-Before I announced to the world I announced to my family. The night before I officially launched on the internet and social media my books were live and I sent emails to my ENTIRE family (this means cousins and aunts/uncles) I asked for their help in sharing my emails to their lists, but also my social media posts that would be occurring the following day.
I am very blessed with supportive family and many of them responded and sent it to all their contacts.
-Launch day:
I announced on my blog, Facebook author page, twitter, and my personal Facebook page. I supplied every single link and I saw a lot of print books sold quickly (surprisingly) then slowly the eBooks on the various retailers (kobo, nook, iTunes) began to creep in.
I also emailed my small but growing mailing list, specifically for my writing. I asked these people as many of them have read the book to please leave a review. I didn't get much of a response on that honestly, but I do have a great review up there that makes me smile. My family, who has purchased the books, tried to leave a review, but Amazon has found they had a connection with me and would not allow their reviews. This is bummer, but at the same time I understand why Amazon has to monitor reviews (no one likes fake reviews)
-Today I participated in a huge mailing list promotion with other authors and my numbers are increasing by the hour. It cost $20 USD to participate and my book gets in front of hundreds of other author's mailing lists for a a period of time. I am only promoting Rise of a Guardian in this mailer. It is the free book. I am using this to hopefully get people interested in my books, not because I don't think it's worth money, but I wanted people to read the series. Trinity Rises is currently listed at $3.99.
Paid sales: They have been very little, but I have made $20.00 USD in royalties at this point and have sold about 10 of my paid books. I hope to see an increase in sales as the hundreds of free downloads have time to read Rise of a Guardian, and the hope of any author is they want to continue the series and move on to the other books.
Tomorrow I am running a promotion with BKnights on Fiverr. I've heard excellent things about them and many of my author friends get a surge of downloads on their promotion day. This promotion cost me $10.
I am loving this so far, although I am not an overnight millionaire, it has been so satisfying to see people actually downloading my books and finding it interesting. I hope to gather more reviews as people finish the book because reviews help authors so much to be visible.
Here's to hoping the downloads continue and more and more people get lost in the adventure of the Lost Relics.
Happy Writing
LJ Andrews
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