Felt good to do nothing but writing (and farming). All the various interruptions on July 4th showing up midweek, then fireworks for four days around it (drives some dogs nuts) - all lent to distractions. But I've got two books ready (nearly) to publish and another anthology to proof... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 27 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 53/181 (Actual vs. Reported: 40%) 4 non-IF subscribes. StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3262 (small drop, and continued slow onboarding from IF, while fewer stick. Means their mailing list isn’t expanding and they don’t have a finger on the pulse.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 11489, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 25 Results
Mostly into research all week. Silva Method, if you must know. Because these time-shifters started it with their simultaneous time. That led back to non-local quantum mechanics, which in turn led to remote perception and influencing - a great course on this from Nightingale-Conant... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 24 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 29/101 (Actual vs. Reported: 29%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3179 (slow decrease, and continued slow onboarding from IF.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 3960, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Fiction Books re-published with updates: Total: … [Read more...]
Living Sensical: An Overdue Update – and Hints of Upcoming…
...mainly because the busy-ness of writing and publishing is just one part of everything I do here. (This post available as a PDF.) Hi again, Going through all my subscribers today was an interesting exercise. Many of you are interested in several things I talk about, and some of you may have slipped in the cracks - so this may be an email out of the blue, perhaps. The Overall Scene - I may may have mentioned you before that a way to analyze any body of data and build your own workable world-view is to look for these four points: Philosophy, Principles, Patterns, and Products. Philosophy is defined as "appreciation for things that work." Principles are core, repeating data that keep showing up. Patterns are like systems, where the principle inter-relate regularly (like … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 37 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 37 Results Regular writing becomes regular, plus more inspired ideas of how to roll out a conversion plan.. Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 6581 (Wattpad) – paid – 21948 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 1389 – paid – 0 (Medium) Free Views: – Medium - 16 – Wattpad - 2 Subscribers: Mailerlite: 34 (non-IF), MailChimp: 24, Instafreebie –242 (down from 363 and 848) New Total: 4046 (from 4247, decrease of 201, earlier 4193) Book sales this week: Amazon – 4, Draft2Digital – 1, Gumroad – 1= Total Week’s sales – 6 Books (pre-)published this week: For the Love of 'Cagga https://calm.li/LoveCagga A Case of Missing Wings https://calm.li/MissingWingsCase In Progress: Hooman Saga: Book Two, Part Two, … [Read more...]
Hooks & Descriptions: Getting the Fiction Readers to Buy
Hooks & Descriptions: Getting the Fiction Readers to Buy Fiction readers are like fish: You can't land a fish unless you get it to bite your bait with a hook in it. Most authors have a hard enough time writing their story, let alone working up a marketing approach that will get people to claim (or buy) their book. Working with Instafreebie brought this to view. On one particular giveaway, analyzing my completed giveaways and the books which had the most claims, it really narrowed down to a single book. Which got me curious - why this book? Instafreebie is different from Amazon and other book outlets, in that there is no preview. To claim a free book, you have to select by the cover and the 800 character description. What's in that book doesn't matter. (And is a subject for … [Read more...]
Email Marketing: Giving Away Free Books, Opt-in’s, and GDPR.
Email Marketing: Giving Away Free Books, Opt-in's, and GDPR. Why This Came Up Yesterday I was reminded how the GDPR deadline was coming up. And Instafreebie was not going to recommend any giveaway or book on their web sight that was still "mandatory opt-in" in order to download a free book. Frankly, this was a no-brainer to me, as I explain below. I then communicated this to my groups, telling them that I was probably going to have to remove any books that were still mandatory opt-in by the time the giveaway went live - so that Instafreebie would help us get subscribers with their promotions. But a very small handful of people - less than 10 - out of the 9 giveaways I am currently organizing had any comment to add. Only two were at all negative. The rest just wanted their book(s) … [Read more...]
