Been a long time, but I was busy with a bad cold followed by being on a Grand Jury for a couple weeks followed by replaying The Witness and watching The Sopranos and other lame excuses.
Did write a couple real short stories, The Greatest Love that Almost Was, which I probably wrote in my annoyance at those love stories where everything works out perfectly, and The Last Chance, which I wrote in my annoyance at my luck in a certain aspect of a certain popular mobile game. Otherwise, I’m in the process of writing a longer short story entitled, Time Travel Romance: As Written by a Twelve-Year-Old Purely for the Money. Of course, I’m not 12, but the story is written in the voice of one. Hopefully anybody who reads it will find it amusing.
Now, you know you’re doing good when your sales graph y-axis has to measure in the thousands. Feast your peeps on my massive sales!
Haha, oh wait, I already spoiled it in the post title, those were units I gave away for free. Based on Nicholas Erik’s (https://nicholaserik.com/) advice, I promoted via freebooksy and hired Kindlepromotor on fiverr.com. Total spent: $77 ($70 for freebooksy, $5 to Kindlepromoter, with $2 fee to fiverr.com). It may take a while to get my money back in any easily quantifiable way, however, knowing thousands of people at least downloaded my book was a pretty cool reward in itself. I also got 3 new reviews on the U.S. Amazon site (finally), bringing me to 9 there (one away from the magic 10!). But what may be neatest of all:
After a REAL rough estimate, looks like people have read about 17,000 pages of my works in the past month. Neat! Of course, I had to make Arnesto listed only on Amazon to get credit for those page reads, meaning it’s not available on Draft2Digital for now, but I felt this was the better way to go at this time. I have also sold 24 units in that time.
I will probably attempt this again soon with my short stories collection for my last (of 5) free days which one gets for being tied only to Amazon.
Life of an Author 