There is a lot of talk in the media about the ongoing dispute between the publisher Hachette and Amazon. It has long since spread to the blogosphere and authors everywhere seem to be taking sides, in general it seems those who are with traditional publishers are siding with Hachette and those who self-publish are with […]

Reviews are essential if you want to get anyone to download your book. However, if no-one is downloading your book there is no-one to review it. Here’s how I tried to break out of that downward spiral of logic without resorting to getting friends or family to post reviews under false names (as some authors […]

Why self-publish? It is a question that gets asked a lot. A question that has a huge assumption at the heart of it, it assumes you can simply choose between the traditional publishing route and self-publishing. You can’t. You can choose to submit your work to agents, hope that one of them decides to accept […]

First of all, the figures: 85 total downloads. 56 for Sovereign Nation. 29 for Second Time Lucky? 66 downloads in the USA, 14 in the UK and 5 in Germany. I have run two previous free promotions on Amazon, one when I launched Sovereign Nation where there were 174 downloads and one for both titles […]

The fifth and final day of the free promotion is now done and as I continued posting to Facebook groups it seems to have been a fairly good day. 18 downloads, 13 for Sovereign Nation (12 on Amazon.com and 1 on Amazon.co.uk) and 5 for Second Time Lucky? overall (all 5 on Amazon.com). Sales rankings […]

Ok, so Day Four of the free promotion is now done and it was a marked improvement over Days Two and Three. I went onto around 9 facebook groups dedicated to free ebooks and posted about mine, 26 downloads for the day. 21 Sovereign Nation (17 on Amazon.com, 3 Amazon.co.uk, 1 Amazon.de). 5 Second Time […]

Third day of the five day promotion and downloads have slipped slightly again, 6 in total for the day (2 Sovereign Nation and 4 Second Time Lucky?). Both Sovereign Nation downloads were from Amazon.co.uk but only one of the Second Time Lucky? downloads was, the others were on Amazon.com. Sovereign Nation currently on Amazon.com: Amazon […]

Day Two of the free promotion in the Kindle Store and much lower download figures than Day One. 7 in total, 4 for Sovereign Nation (3 on Amazon.com and 1 on Amazon.de) and 3 for Second Time Lucky? (all on Amazon.com). Sovereign Nation currently on Amazon.com: #12,105 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free […]

Day One of the free promotion of ‘Sovereign Nation’ and ‘Second Time Lucky?’ Is now over and 28 copies were downloaded, broken down as follows: Sovereign Nation 16 (Amazon.com 8, Amazon.co.uk 5, Amazon.de 3). Second Time Lucky? 12 (Amazon.com 11, amazon.co.uk 1).   Sovereign Nation currently on Amazon.com: #12,664 Free in Kindle Store (See Top […]