Running my first promotion

Clouds of Venus will appear on bknights tomorrow.  :o  Hoping for lots of free downloads, some good sell-through to the other two books, and having some also-boughts appear on Amazon.

Another promotion is scheduled for Tuesday, October 3.  And a third promotion is in the works.

UPDATE:  Two promotions scheduled for Oct. 3: Freebooksy and eBookBetty.

The trilogy has fans :D

Books 2 and 3 made their first sales on Amazon yesterday.  Awesome.  :D  No sales of those two yet via D2D, but many free downloads of Clouds of Venus.

Still no reviews yet.  :(  Hopefully I'll get some good ones soon.

Ready, fire, aim!

That's my process, basically.  Like Dale Kinmont, I never get anything right the first time, so I shoot first and adjust my aim later.  *sigh*  I've already altered the blurb for Clouds of Venus a little.  And then I realized I left an extra paragraph return in the blurb, so I had to go back and remove that.  The good news is that the book is perma-free on Amazon.  Across all retailers, a few dozen copies have already been downloaded.  No sales of books 2 or 3 yet, but it's still early.

Next up: ad blitz.  I've got a few places I want to submit to.  I'll do that tomorrow, though.  I'm kind of tired, and those ad people probably don't work on the weekends anyway.

The good news is that I'm now in full Wheel of Fire mode.  I've started the third draft of Hostile Planet.  I hope to finish it in a week or so.  After that, I'll re-read it in epub on the computer for final proofreading.  And I'll need to finalize the cover.

Getting it all sorted out

Publishing three books via three different platforms, all in one day, is a draining experience.  Not only did I upload each book to Amazon, Kobo, and Draft2Digital, but I also filed the copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office.  Doing all of those things was a several-hours-long grind.  I don't recommend it.  From now on, it's one book at a time.

I've added links to the blog's sidebar.  Still waiting on Scribd.

I've bookmarked the books in my browser.

I've sent out some free copies to a few friends.  I've also made three sales of Clouds of Venus already.  So at least, uh... *counts on fingers*  ...eight people have the book in their possession now.

I've posted links in the "Make it Free" thread on kboards.  I've also contacted KDP and asked them to price-match.  With any luck, it'll go free tomorrow or over the weekend, and I'll be applying for promotions on Monday.

I've added the books to Goodreads.

Oh--almost forgot--another author asked if he could read a chapter from Clouds of Venus for his podcast.  I agreed.  Planned for Sep. 29.  I'll post a link when it's up.

That's all for now.  And, frankly, it's enough.  lol



UPDATE:  All three titles are now on Scribd.  I'll add the links momentarily.

Published today

All three books of the Fee Space trilogy.  Book 1 is free everywhere except Amazon, and I'll try to price-match it as soon as I can.  The rest are $2.99.  Books are available at the same places as my short stories.

Took a few hours, and it was a bit tedious.  I uploaded to three different places--Amazon, Kobo, and D2D--and the files are slightly different in the back matter, so it was a challenge keeping everything straight.  The next few days will be spent trying to get these things stood up, updating the blog sidebar, and getting advertisers lined up and whatnot.  I'm looking forward to moving on, though, and getting back to the Wheel of Fire.

For now, though, let's see some covers.

Harry Dean Stanton has passed away

He was 91.  He was a great character actor, and he livened up everything he was in.

R.I.P., Mr. Stanton, and thanks for the excellent and memorable work.  :(

I survived Irma

I was never in much danger, being in north Georgia, but, just the same, I thought y'all would like to know I'm okay.

Power was out for about fifteen hours.  Internet was out for a few hours longer than that.  A neighbor had wind damage to his roof.  Leaves and limbs were everywhere, but nothing destructive happened nearby.  A tree fell on a nearby road, but that was it.  The birds didn't seem to notice the weather.  They congregated at the feeders in spite of the rain and wind.  Tough little critters.

As far as writing goes, I didn't make any progress on proofreading Cities of Mars.  I've been using my Kindle to read the book for this purpose, and my Kindle was low on battery power.  My laptop was fully charged, though, so I used it for the only thing I could: writing a draft.  I rattled off about 2500 words like it was nothing, and I finished the first draft of Silver Mountain, a 7k-word short story.  So "yay" for that.

I haven't done much today.  After a day without internet, I just felt like getting online and doing some old-fashioned internet surfing.  Lazy, I know.  What can I say... I'm a flawed man.  :(

So that's that.  Goodbye, Irma.  Be gentle with Alabama and Tennessee, and please don't circle back.