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Thank you so much! I'm so excited to actually have a Kindle story out there. Now to get my novel edited and uploaded...Bolt527 wrote: Read it. It's quite good. I hope you keep publishing more along these lines: dark and gritty.
Wow, it has moved from #9,000-something to #308 in its category for Kindle stories on Amazon today. Thank you so much, guys!!!
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I’m starting to like this Amplifier guy!barber wrote: Probably just Amplifier doing his thing, HikerAngel...
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HikerAngel wrote:
Thank you so much! I'm so excited to actually have a Kindle story out there. Now to get my novel edited and uploaded...Bolt527 wrote: Read it. It's quite good. I hope you keep publishing more along these lines: dark and gritty.
Wow, it has moved from #9,000-something to #308 in its category for Kindle stories on Amazon today. Thank you so much, guys!!!
I checked it out on Unlimited and it'll be one of the next things that I read. I hope you make something reasonable off that.
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What I’m really curious to see is how much I receive from KU and KOLL at the end of the month. This is more of an experiment than anything. I’m trying to see whether it is better to do the exclusive Amazon thing to get KU sales, or to publish across sites like Gumroad, Wattpad, and Apple Books. I’m hoping to publish a full superwoman novel, the first in a series, in the coming weeks as well, and I’m debating how to do it. This novella will help me tell, since I know zero about publishing at this point.
I've also submitted a couple of short stories and poems to magazines. We’ll see how that goes as well...
Also, thank you so much to the multi-talented Lfan who made a much more professional-looking cover for it! It’s so much better now!
If you want to keep up on my journey to become a proper author, feel free to check in on my blog. It’s at:
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HikerAngel wrote: What I’m really curious to see is how much I receive from KU and KOLL at the end of the month. This is more of an experiment than anything. I’m trying to see whether it is better to do the exclusive Amazon thing to get KU sales, or to publish across sites like Gumroad, Wattpad, and Apple Books. I’m hoping to publish a full superwoman novel, the first in a series, in the coming weeks as well, and I’m debating how to do it. This novella will help me tell, since I know zero about publishing at this point.
I know this is an anecdote rather than data but here's my experience with cross-platform publishing. For my last project, sales on Amazon Kindle accounted for 99% of total sales. Every other platform combined accounted for the other 1%. It wasn't worth my sticking around on the other stores.
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Wow! Thank you so much for sharing that insight!Gincognifo wrote: I know this is an anecdote rather than data but here's my experience with cross-platform publishing. For my last project, sales on Amazon Kindle accounted for 99% of total sales. Every other platform combined accounted for the other 1%. It wasn't worth my sticking around on the other stores.
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Wow! Thank you so much for sharing that insight!Gincognifo wrote: I know this is an anecdote rather than data but here's my experience with cross-platform publishing. For my last project, sales on Amazon Kindle accounted for 99% of total sales. Every other platform combined accounted for the other 1%. It wasn't worth my sticking around on the other stores.
Your mileage may vary, especially if you have a better marketing plan than me, which was to do nothing.
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I think this thread and my blog constitute the extent of my marketing prowess.Gincognifo wrote: Your mileage may vary, especially if you have a better marketing plan than me, which was to do nothing.
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I'd never considered making money from publishing my stuff (Ok, maybe an occasional latte or two), but always wondered if there was an audience out there who could appreciate our "genre" stories who hadn't already joined the ranks of SWM and/or the other genre sites.
Have you had any decent feedback or evidence of exposure on Amazon, et.al. to readers outside our rather inclusive community?
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Thank you. I wasn't sure what reaction to expect. I'm not angling to make a living from writing, but paying my student loans down ever so slightly would be nice perk from my writing. The Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Online Lending Library aspect is really appealing. People who already have that service pay nothing but can read my stories for free, and I see royalties from it (though I have no idea how much yet--I'll let you know when I receive my first report on that at the beginning of February). I can't see who buys it, but I can tell total quantities sold by country. Sales by country tend to follow my DeviantArt and writing.com view stats to a "T". The country views are literally always in the same order, other than that Austrailia/Netherlands/Sweden are sometimes shuffled a bit.shadar wrote: I think it's encouraging that you guys are putting some things up on Amazon and other places for wider exposure. I've considered doing so for years, but never made the push to pull it off.
I'd never considered making money from publishing my stuff (Ok, maybe an occasional latte or two), but always wondered if there was an audience out there who could appreciate our "genre" stories who hadn't already joined the ranks of SWM and/or the other genre sites.
Have you had any decent feedback or evidence of exposure on Amazon, et.al. to readers outside our rather inclusive community?
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1. United States
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. UK
5. Canada
6. Australia
7. Netherlands
8. Sweden
9. Philippines
10. Various other European countries
Amazon doesn't give any demographic info beyond sales by country, but writing.com and Google Analytics on my DeviantArt do. 91% of my readers on DeviantArt are men, 79% are male on writing.com. 70% of my readers are between the age of 18 and 34. Most of them make either less than $20,000 per year (probably students) or over $80,000 per year.
Whether these people are different than those on SWM... I have absolutely no idea. As I said, none of those sites give information on individual people (I'm actually happy about that--there's at least some level of privacy there, at least in what they share to authors). What I do know from writing.com is that the vast majority of my readers are young men. Most of my views from women come from my poetry (90%+ women) or horror stories (20-30% women). Only about 10% of my views on beautification stories and superheroine stories come from women. My market niche in this genre definitely seems to be writing for guys with only a small percentage of women.
I'll let you know if I somehow gain any additional insight.
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Really? That's strange! It's supposed to be on the market in Australia! I'll check it out...Dru1076 wrote: I would have bought this...but when I try it says it is unavailable on the Aussie Amazon market. A shame...sounds really good.
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Really? That's strange! It's supposed to be on the market in Australia! I'll check it out...Dru1076 wrote: I would have bought this...but when I try it says it is unavailable on the Aussie Amazon market. A shame...sounds really good.
I worked it out. It's the link taking me to the wrong page. To buy it from Australia use this link:
www.amazon.com.au/Lake-Hiker-Angel-ebook...id=1578957875&sr=8-1
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Oh good! I was wondering how I had Australian sales...!Dru1076 wrote: I worked it out. It's the link taking me to the wrong page. To buy it from Australia use this link:
www.amazon.com.au/Lake-Hiker-Angel-ebook...id=1578957875&sr=8-1
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"The Lake Hiker Angel"
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Just bought them both!MisterK wrote: Just got it. it's on my TBR list. Here's the link to my series: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P842JMJ?ref...ies&storeType=ebooks
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