Tag: novella

Sunshine

May 1st, 2018

No complaints. I think turning off social media and spending the last week not looking at the news, or listening to the news, has been very therapeutic. Just mostly listening to music on Spotify, doing classwork, self-teaching myself Bootstrap, PHP, and a little Javascript. All of it is going well and I’ve been focused.

Interesting: Once again, cutting off people is a good thing.

Even writing the third installment of that novella. 

Working? Not yet. My choices are to get a bullshit job and get paid nothing or keep applying for the right job, for the right pay that I qualify for while working toward my degree. The pressure on my wife bothers me, but this is the usual churning mire. 

Just overall, mentally and productively, it’s been a good couple of days.

Being Read

April 5th, 2018

Somewhere out there, the first novella is being read and I learned a little bit more about how Kindle works. Think two things: delays and “Kindle Unlimited”.

As of today, I this is what showed up in the ebook listing:

#412 in Kindle Store >

#626 in Kindle Store > 

#1887 in Kindle Store 

Rankings … but no sales.

At first, I didn’t understand how I can achieve any ranking at all if I didn’t have any sales. Poking around for answers online, I came to understand that “Kindle Unlimited” users get the book for free and so my Kindle Edition Normalized Page Numbers went up for the same book.

I have rankings currently, for the other books, that are in the rank of 1,000,000 so trust me 415 is impressive. lol. I do know that ranks go up and down with the times, continued writing of the author, the marketing. I’m probably getting some of this from the recent twitter, emailing, Instagram, etc, etc. Which one? I don’t know. If I had to put my best bet on which service actually DID anything?

http://booktweeters.com/

For just $15 for that one day, while I didn’t get more than 2 or three actual ‘likes’ for my listing, I noticed it was retweeted a few times. I’ll never know the exposure amount, but I paid Twitter $50, got an allegedly high amount of exposure, no likes and no retweets. Money I regret spending. 

Four days after Book Tweeters, here are my rankings. Honestly, I don’t know what truly worked. Maybe the combination of everything. The reason I’m interested in what works is that it would help to know which marketing plan helps on a monthly basis. The novella is a series that comes out once a month on the first.

The delays are that I am one of the thousands of books published that day and moved around since the release to now. For all I know the KENP (Kindle Edition Normalized Pages) count I got was from a few days ago and I’m just getting it on the report today.

Who knows.

To me, it’s a heartbeat; a small measure of success and encourages me to keep writing. Just keep writing.