My Goodreads giveaway closes out on January 15th, so enter today! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/75303-a-murder-in-mount-moriah. So far, about 500 people have entered to win. The vast majority of those have added A Murder in Mount Moriah to their to-read lists, which, if those people also have the automated Goodreads feeds to Twitter or Facebook, could mean a whole lot of eyeballs looking at my book cover. I’m really curious to see how many of those will translate to sales. Presumably, people don’t buy the book during the giveaway period, in case they end up winning. I guess I have to hope that the “losers” will stumble across it on their shelves in a few weeks’ time, see the positive reviews, and buy a copy. In other news, I had a nice sales bounce last week when my fellow Little Spot for Stories author Nicole Loughan‘s series became a Kindle bestseller. It looks like a few dozen people checking out the Little Spot website picked up my book as well as hers. I think I also picked up some sales from my recent New River Valley Voices reading, the recording of which has been in heavy rotation on the local public access station.
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To Free or Not to Free, That Is the Question.
My indie publishing guru, Nicole Loughlin of littlespotforstories.com, told me that it’s important to boost your Kindle/Amazon ratings in the run-up to Christmas in order to capture the interest of the many millions of shoppers who receive Amazon gift vouchers for Christmas. Once your books drops out of the top 100,000, you lose a lot of visibility vis-a-vis other books. (i.e. when someone searches “cozy mysteries”, I want A Murder in Mount Moriah to pop up in their search, and when they buy a cozy, I want AMiMM to pop up in Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” suggestion bar). I’ve only sold 3 copies this week (!), so my book is lurking dangerously near that 100,000 mark. I therefore had to decide whether to run another $0.99 promotion or to do a few days’ giveaway. I’ve had modest success with both methods in the past. My book wasn’t eligible for another discount promo until January 20th, which I feared might be too late for that post-Christmas bounce, so I opted for a few freebie days. Ideally, this will generate a few post-Christmas sales and/or a boost in my visibility. It may also generate some new reviews, which are another big part of improving visibility. I’ll let you know what happens.
p.s. I’ve had 175 people register for my Goodreads giveaway during the first few days. Woot!