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make i hear you ask well a book can t be on a kindle countdown offer if it s priced at less than 1 99 so some authors cough have had to delay promotions because of that penny self promotion is hard i do it with what a friend calls a very light touch because i don t want to annoy people and as a result probably don t promote my book enough but i can live with that we all know not everyone will like our books but knowing this and experiencing it are entirely different i ve not had a 1 star review yet but even that 3 star one describing my baby as pretty average hurt at first i m already developing a thicker skin or maybe i ve gained confidence now that readers are telling me they ve enjoyed my book not long after no stranger to death came out i was kindly offered the chance to have it reviewed by an online book group but turned this opportunity down i wouldn t now there s a tremendous camaraderie between authors which transcends the published unpublished and indie traditional divides i ve been touched by the generosity of other writers who have supported me you can t force people who ve enjoyed your book to leave a review however i ve found that giving readers other ways to show their appreciation like putting my facebook page and twitter handle at the back of no stranger to death has paid dividends i m thrilled every time i receive a message saying someone has read my book and enjoyed it sometimes they even use the word loved i ve been pleasantly surprised by how many men have told me they enjoyed no stranger to death including nigel adams who wrote a lovely review on his blog i don t sell many paperbacks but i m glad i went the extra mile to make them available they are invaluable for signings giveaways thank you gifts and review copies and i m hoping a few people who ve enjoyed the ebook may buy paperbacks for their crime fiction loving friends and relatives at christmas a few things i d like to say if you re one of the many many people who have supported me over the past year by buying my book reviewing it spreading the word about it or by any other means i d like to say if you re thinking of self publishing go for it it s not easy and the results are unpredictable but it is tremendously satisfying and finally if you re wondering what s next i ll be publishing my second book working title too soon a death in june 2015 all pics courtesy of freedigitalphotos net posted by janet o kane at 13 43 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bloggers book 2 christmas gift crime fiction no stranger to death self publishing sequel too soon a death sunday 2 november 2014 spoiled for choice gaps on bookshelves in my dreams i can honestly say that reading has made me the woman i am today it s not a hobby it s a way of life something i do every day in a variety of places however tired i am it s impossible to settle down to sleep without picking up the book on my bedside table the prospect of a train or bus journey without something to read is unthinkable and yet recently i ve had to downgrade myself from a voracious reader to an enthusiastic one due to a lack of time taking all this into consideration why is it that when i finish a book these days i find choosing which one to read next so challenging am i overwhelmed by sheer numbers 500 or so on real and virtual shelves like when i try to buy shampoo in a big branch of boots or has my selection of what to read next become more critical because i don t have time to waste on a book which may prove disappointing i ve experimented with different ways to tackle my vacillation sometimes i stand in front of the bookshelves close my eyes and put out a hand i ve even resorted to asking my husband to pick a title but for some reason i m never happy with his choices most recently i declared october my scandi crime month and this seemed to work pulling together all the physical copies of qualifying titles many of which i d owned for years i piled them on top of the filing cabinet books by sjowall wahloo larsson mankell indridason and fossum stared at me every time i entered the study and i started working through them this makes it sound like a chore but how could it be i enjoyed some more than others and haven t managed them all yet but i ve definitely read more this october than i have for a long time so i plan to continue reading by monthly theme for a while inspired by this year s book week scotland 24 30 nov november is my scottish crime fiction month i ve already started the frederic lindsay december s theme is going to be friends books i m privileged to know a lot of writers yet rarely seem to get round to reading their books because christmas will be spent lounging on the sofa reading while john cooks to his heart s content i should be able to make good progress through the list i ve come up with for this and then in no particular order i intend to spend a month each on non fiction short stories later on in 2015 i shall revisit old favourites and the few golden age crime novels i possess and take in some crime fiction debuts do you ever feel spoiled for choice and if so how do you choose what to read next and can you suggest any reading themes i should consider remember my aim isn t to buy more books aye right but to read the ones i already own posted by janet o kane at 04 33 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book week scotland books crime fiction fiction non fiction reading scandi crime scottish crime fiction short stories thursday 25 september 2014 catching up it s been a longish hottish summer in scotland and lots has happened i won t bore you with my holiday photos but here is some news i d like to share reading news i ve declared october 2014 my personal scandi crime month because this pile has looked accusingly down at me from my to be read shelf for long enough and because i couldn t wait i ve started already with mankell s faceless killers i ve heard varying opinions on twitter and facebook about several novels in this pile i ll let you know what i think at the end of next month writing news no stranger to death has received two very different plaudits recently firstly it has been awarded a b r a g medallion an award for quality self published books b r a g is an acronym for book readers appreciation group and books which are chosen for the medallion go through a rigorous selection process this involves an initial screening then reading by members of a global reader group who judge them on creative criteria like plot writing style characters and dialogue as well as the professional aspects of copy editing cover and interior layout the required standards are very high only 10 of the books considered are awarded a b r a g medallion one of the criticisms of self publishing is that it s hard for readers to find quality books among all the titles being put out there the b r a g medallion scheme is helping address that find out more at this link self publishing news i ve written here and here about the process which led to no stranger to death having a cover design by kim mcgillivray that i m truly proud of while researching cover designs which work and ones that don t i spent a lot of time on joel friedlander s website the book designer as well as offering invaluable advice on many aspects of self publishing joel runs a monthly e book cover design award competition is fierce and some of joel s verdicts can be even fiercer so i held off from entering for months but i did finally pluck up the courage and here s what he thought i love the way the designer has used a minimum number of elements colors and fonts to create this high impact moody cover he also awarded kim s design a coveted gold star which gives us the right to display this image new writing news all this excitement hasn t let me forget the most important task in hand writing the sequel to no stranger to death i m about a third of the way through now and once the first draft is complete i ll share a little about it all i can say to those of you who have read the book and are anxious to know if a certain character comes back is probably though not how you might expect thanks for reading posted by janet o kane at 06 36 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels b r a g medallion book 2 book cover design crime fiction no stranger to death scandi crime self publishing sequel monday 25 august 2014 who sold the most books and the winner is the last time i blogged i wrote about my decision to promote no stranger to death at 99p 99c as a kindle countdown deal for a week in late july i also mentioned that my friend peter flannery was doing the same with his already successful thriller first and only to make things really interesting we wagered a bottle of champagne on which book would sell the most we stayed in touch while the promotion was on swapping emails and captured images of kindle chart rankings and met up recently to discuss what happened and share sales figures peter plans to blog about what he learnt from the exercise and here are some of my observations so who won cutting to the chase peter sold the most ebooks overall in fact his unit sales were more than twice mine however i sold more in the uk while the majority of peter s sales were on amazon com and although his daily sales peaked on day 2 of his promotion mine kept on rising until my book went back up to 1 99 i can t help wondering what would have happened if i could have held the price at 99p for say a further week what about amazon rankings i checked no stranger to death s kindle store rankings twice daily well possibly more often than that it did get addictive here are some of the book s rankings landmarks on amazon uk 21 st july day 1 24 7 27 7 final day 28 7 promo ended kindle store paid 17 392 2 157 902 1285 noir crime 23 6 2 3 scottish crime 97 15 5 8 british crime 36 7 10 the changes in no stranger to death s rankings on amazon com were pleasing too despite the lower sales rate from starting off just outside the top 100 000 kindle books on 25 th july it peaked at an overall ranking of 9 298 and was at no 5 in noir crime no 57 in british crime and no 50 in murder other observations during and immediately after the promotion i had a few kindle unlimited ku and kindle owners lending library koll borrowings so my book s profile had been raised enough to generate these in addition i notched up more sales in germany canada and australia than i ever had before even though the countdown deal was only on the uk and usa sites what does all this mean this was a learning exercise for both peter and me because it s impossible to track every book sale back to what motivated the buyer i wish we can only make educated guesses at what the data we ve collected is telling us alas as someone once said half the money i spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is i don t know which half however here s how i have interpreted the results of my countdown deal book promotion sites peter invested in a bookbub promotion which took place on day 2 as this was the day his sales peaked it seems like the market leader in book promotions does deliver increased sales although with a heavy bias towards the us market my book is still hampered by a lack of reviews on amazon com it was hard to get many promotional sites to even consider listing it i didn t try bookbub for this reason and this has probably put off potential buyers too i spent far less than bookbub would have cost on free cheap 10 book promotion sites like the daily bookworm 99 cent mysteries and awesome gang and more than made back my money although most of them carried through on their promises i m not convinced they generated a lot of sales for all the effort it took to register with them however given peter s experience if i could get my book accepted i would give bookbub a go in the future twitter i value the friends i ve made on twitter and have such a fear of becoming an annoying buy my book person there that instead of blitzing social media i paced myself with just a couple of promotional tweets each day this seems to have paid off as friends on twitter helped tremendously in spreading the word in the uk my thanks to everyone who retweeted on my behalf even though i scheduled promotional tweets during the uk night in order to catch some americans while they were online i don t have sufficient usa followers to make this work for me facebook despite my facebook author page having 143 likes not a lot i know but i ve put little effort into promoting it none of my promotional posts reached anything like that number of people even when i liked and shared them with friends on my personal fb page i didn t pay to increase their reach because i ve tried that once before and it was a total waste of money however all was not lost on the fb front as i also posted details of my countdown deal on several crime mystery fiction fb groups which allow promotional postings i know these garnered at least a few sales because i got comments from people who liked the sound of my book and bought it that is one of the strengths of fb it enables immediate feedback amazon sites i m not convinced that promoting my book as a countdown deal gave it much visibility on either of the amazon websites you have to go searching for the page featuring these books unlike daily deals books in the summer sale etc which are boldly presented to everyone visiting the kindle store and included in targeted emails does the counting down element price goes up to x in 5 days really motivate readers to buy that said books in countdown retain the higher 70 royalty rate if i promoted outside this my royalty rate would halve what next running the first price promotion for no stranger to death was informative and fun although it involved a lot of work to maximise its effect i ve benefited financially but not to a huge degree and i m hopeful that as people who downloaded my book get round to reading it the number of amazon reviews it has will steadily increase i can now refer to its kindle chart success e g a kindle top 5 scottish crime novel in other marketing i do here are some plans i have for the future no stranger to death s lack of reviews by american readers is holding it back and i need to address this ideas i have include contacting us book bloggers although many refuse to review self published books and using goodreads to distribute review copies i may even look at doing a short free promotion solely on amazon com if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know the temptation to throw everything at a promotion is huge but maybe next time i ll experiment with fewer marketing components to help identify what really works i must weigh up the pros and cons of simply reducing the price of no stranger to death rather than making it a countdown deal i could then decide when to put the book s price back up 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