Speechless!

Sales on Bourne to Love Emma lagged after a couple of weeks post-release.  I was hopeful that it would sell more after I released Fighting for Heather.  While working on some things right after FfH released last week, I thought about the KDP promotional opportunities.  I can't do a Kindle Countdown Deal because the book must be priced over $2.99 regularly and mine aren't.  But - BUT - I have the option to make a book free for five days or less during any 90 day period on KDP Select.

I thought it might encourage people to read the first book and maybe buy the second one....

When I first looked at the sales numbers yesterday, a little over a hundred copies had been given away.  That's well over the number I've sold on my best day.

By mid-afternoon, over three hundred copies had been given away.  By dinner, that number was over 450.

The final number for the first day it was offered for free:  FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE.

Holy crap.

Obviously, the down side of all of that is that I make nothing off of giving books away for free.  The up side:  visibility, name recognition, repeat business if they enjoyed it....

I am keeping this in mind as I work on my next book.  Perhaps Fighting for Heather will be free for a couple of days around the release of the third book in the series.

I never imagined that many people reading my first book.  Wow!

FREE books!

To celebrate the release of Fighting for Heather this week, I thought I should encourage other people to pick up the first book in the series, too.

So.

Friday (12/4/2015) through Sunday (12/6/15), Bourne to Love Emma will be FREE on Amazon!

Click here to get your copy today!

Happy Reading!

MKP

Nail biting... and Teaser Tuesday

It's so exciting when the book goes live and you actually see it on Amazon and you can look at a report that shows it's been purchased.  It's this kind of incredibly surreal moment - something I wrote about people who only existed in my head is now being seen by other people.  Insane!

Then there's the days that follow.  The worry that people won't like what they read.  The wondering if  you should have rewritten more of the book - if the characters should have met differently or if you didn't spend enough time making them three-dimensional.

I got a new 5 star review for Bourne to Love Emma this morning and the reviewer was so excited to find out that Fighting for Heather had just been released....  The two books are so different - at least as far as what the main characters want and the obstacles they have to face.  If someone loved one, will they love the other?  Did I push Heather and John's characters too far outside the 'norm' for contemporary romance?

Argh.  I think I need to unplug for the rest of today.  I have a story in my head that needs to be written and I can't focus on it when I find myself wandering through Amazon and Goodreads and Facebook.  :p

Time to get back to adulting!

Here's the teaser I posted this morning for anyone not following me somewhere else: