A new 4-star review of Beginning of a Hero!
Well here it is, my friends, my very first posting of a Book Review to my beloved blog, just in time for the soon to be upcoming release of the next installment of the Legends of Windemere Series.
Today I am going to post my review of the first book in the Series:
Legends of Windemere – Beginning of a Hero by Charles E. Yallowitz.
TOTAL STARS: FOUR STARS ****
I read this book last summer and loved it. This review is long overdue.
Luke Callindor is a young forest tracker who comes from a long line of honored warriors. He leaves his home at 17, with his trusted dog and companion, Stiletto, to make a name for himself based on his own merits. In his travels, he walks into a zombie attack of a Paladin guarding the Hamilton Military Academy and another man, who happens to be…
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Really nice review. Congrats
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Thanks. Definitely needed to confidence boost this week.
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Why? You are the greatest.
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That free weekend kind of destroyed Beginning of a Hero, which also crippled the other two books. Even a shot of advertising didn’t help. I’ve learned my lesson.
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Congratulations, Charles. An honest and well deserved four-star review beats the multitude of fluffy, bogus five-star reviews, any day of the week. This is something to derive a genuine sense of accomplishment from.
When you have a moment, would you please expand on your reply to Mr. Howell regarding how the free weekend destroyed Beginning of a Hero and its sequels, S.V.P.?
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Basically, the books were selling at a decent pace for the end of the month. I did the free period for the first book, which moved it from the ‘Paid eBook’ Amazon lists to the ‘Free eBook’ one. When the book returned to the Paid lists, it was really far down the rankings. This seemed to just make it stop selling and the others slowed to a crawl.
The reason I point to the free weekend is because that’s the only thing that changed. I kept doing the marketing as usual and even put a little money behind Beginning of a Hero to get it a few sales. Got nothing for some reason.
Now, this seems to be the opposite of what happens for other people. They do a free period and the momentum carries over a bit to when it goes back to a priced book. Doesn’t seem to have happened this time.
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Interesting (but sad that you had to experience it). I wonder if you can achieve the desired outcome without the adverse side effect by reducing the book price to a minimal effort, and offering to refund/PayPal back the purchase price to anyone who emails you their receipt.
Marketing is a tough nut to crack, obviously.
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I go through Amazon so the refund thing wouldn’t work. It would also open me up to people simply reading the book and coming for money. The book is priced at 99 cents, so there isn’t any lower it can go.
The free period seems to work out for some genres. Sadly, fantasy isn’t one of them.
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I’m starting to think that I will require a good Ouija board at midnight of the fall equinox to figure out the marketing side of things. I hope I do not start to hope for a failed feminist attempted assassination of me as a means to get cheap publicity.
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Those failed assassination attempts are overdone anyway.
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Now that comment made me laugh. Thank you.
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