New Dawns – Season One of a new Romantic-Christian-Science-Fiction serial!

New Chances is the first episode of season one of my new serial, New Dawns, and it goes live on 3rd October! New episodes will launch weekly after that, six in total so far. They will be followed by a Christmas special and, eventually, a collected edition. Writing a serial is new for me so […]

Free Books – Second Time Lucky and Sovereign Nation!

This week from Tuesday to Saturday Second Time Lucky will be free on Amazon. I’ve got some promos set up which will hopefully produce good results. Then from Friday to Tuesday Sovereign Nation goes free! Different promos set up for this so it will be interesting to see what performs well and what happens to […]

Promo Experiments

Ok, the promo experiments continue. As Bknioghts refunded me for the last one I’ve used the money to try things again, starting with a cut down Bknights promo. Here are the results: 05/09/2014 – 16:35, the baseline. Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,121 Paid in Kindle Store 17:35 digitalbookspot.com ad goes live. 06/09/2014 – 06:10 Amazon […]

Promoting Books: An Experiment And A Result

This week I tried out a paid for promotion just to see if it works, I used Bknights through Fiverr as they seem to have a good reputation. I got them to promote Second Time Lucky, my murder mystery novelette (although I have been calling it a ‘novella’ it is apparently too short). As this […]

Facebook, New Work and Reviews – An Update On Many Things

Facebook promotions. Ok, so I posted my advert for all three books on Facebook on Sunday morning. Posted it in 60 different Facebook groups, all of them dedicated to Kindles, books, authors and so on. The end result of all that posting? Nothing, nada, zilch, zero, not a dickie-bird. So after multiple postings to all […]

Changes, Part Two: Blurbs

Ok, so here are the new blurbs for the books. This time I didn’t post the new ones to Kboards, I need to rebuild my confidence before asking for any help from there again! Second Time Lucky? By C. T. Brown My girlfiend dead, murdered, lying in the gutter at my feet. Police could be […]

Changes, Part One: New Covers.

I recently posted the covers for my works up on the Kboards in their Writers Cafe section, hoping to get some constructive criticism about improving them. Well, I definitely got the criticism! Some of their points were valid, although it might have been nice if someone had managed to say something slightly positive, so I […]

Download Figures

So, I had a rough estimate in my head of total numbers of downloads of my books so far – around the 400 mark or slightly below. Then I realised I hadn’t done the essential data monkey task – create a spreadsheet! Formulas, conditional formatting, I could even try and work in a pivot table. […]

Authors, Self-Publishing and Money.

Money. A dirty word in some circles and the elephant in the room whenever there is a discussion about self-publishing. So let us start with a question, are you writing purely to earn money? If the answer is ‘yes’ then forget self-publishing, in fact forget most forms of fiction altogether. Go out and research what […]

Marketing and Promotion

Well my three day experiment making Chasing The Future free resulted in 31 downloads and these have so far led to exactly no sales whatsoever. I’m not sure if the ‘no sales’ part is due to the theory that free giveaways drive sales being wrong or just just that we’re talking about such low numbers […]