Well, I was confused when my numbers jumped this morning and it took me until now to get to my non-Facebook, non-Twitter, non-Goodreads, and non-Wordpress emails. Sitting in the other stuff was an e-mail from Amazon telling me about all these great fantasy/sci-fi titles. Here’s a screenshot and you can see what I see:
Okay. Apparently, I can’t get the shot into an agreeable picture format. So, I’ll have to describe it in as much detail as possible:
Beginning of a Hero is at the top of this list and I believe this has been sent to anybody who has shown an interest in fantasy/sci-fi.
Again, this falls under the category of ‘WTF did I do?’ Still it’s nice to see that Amazon has my back even if it’s automated. Either that or they’re trying to convince me to buy my own book.
Legends of Windemere 
Yay!!! Congratulations! That sounds like a very promising development indeed! 🙂 I’d say it means they think your book is very marketable, so kudos to you!! 🙂
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Thanks. It does appear that they’re putting a little power behind me, which is great.
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Fingers crossed it translates into massive sales and critical acclaim! 🙂
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Looks like some nice reviews too.
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Charles, I regularly get the same ‘buy me’ prompt from Amazon. A list of supernatural romance and fantasy novels…and there, at the top, is ‘A Construct of Angels.’ Maybe they imagine I will pass the email onto all my friends – who’ll fail to notice that I’m plugging my own book. 😀
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I thought that too, but my wife got the same fantasy/sci-fi email. We have different last names, so the connection isn’t easy to get through the computer. I think it’s better to dream that many people are getting that email. After all, all of my friends have either bought or passed on buying it by this point. Forwarding it would just make them mad and they’re not fun when they’re mad.
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Wonderful!
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Thanks. How are things going with your new cover art?
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I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback from it, not many sales but my Amazon rank is going down much more slowly than I’m used to. I still have to upload it to CreateSpace.
I’ve been so busy with journalism and a sick child that I haven’t had time to market much or watch what the market is doing. I really think it won’t do much until I get my next book out.
I saw your ‘I love you too, Amazon’ post this morning and was happy! How inspiring! To be honest, I’ve been wondering about the whole full-time author thing. I love journalism, too, but I love the idea of making my own deadlines. Although I do need to be more realistic about that, too. 🙂
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Sorry that your child is sick. That’s never fun and I hope he/she gets better quickly.
Being your own boss has it’s perks, but I’ll admit that it gets pretty stressful at times. If I didn’t have the next 3 (almost 4) books done then I wouldn’t have tried this stunt.
Have you tried any of the sites that I listed for advertising? AskDavid.com seems to have been a big help and it was only $10. You just need to write a unique description for it like with Goodkindles. Bookpinning was another one and that was free. It would work very well now that you have the new cover.
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I almost did…and then I thought it might be better to wait until I have the second book done so that I could build some momentum while releasing that title. What do you think? I would love your input on this. 🙂
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Personally, I would try to build up some momentum on the first book, which would create a public want for the sequel. Also, you would have a larger group of readers who can go right into the sequel instead of having to start at the first one and wait.
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Hmmm. You’re probably right.
I should have some time between conference sessions this weekend. Maybe I’ll give it a try.
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AskDavid is probably the more complicated one to put together, but Bookpinning is pretty easy. I’d start with the easy one. Probably takes 5 minutes.
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Thanks! 🙂
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