And here I am, a whole month later. That was a deliberate gap, in case you’re wondering: I decided to take a break after publication, have a holiday, and come back refreshed and full of fab ideas for book promotion. Well, two out of three ain’t bad! When I was working full-time, I could carve out space to do the actual writing (which I love) but not for any marketing (not so much love here…). Now that I have stopped work, I am hoping to take a more professional approach: my ideal routine would be to spend two days a week writing, one day researching and one day on marketing. And so I have not beaten myself up about abandoning “Notes of Change” to its fate after publication, as I know that before too long I will be revisiting the whole series with a proper marketing/promo plan. (I’m going on a long train journey next week – four hours each way – and my goal is to spend most of it on preparing that plan.)
Meanwhile, I thought you might like to hear how “Notes of Change” has done in its first month. It’s the first book for a while that I have published “wide” – i.e. on platforms other than Amazon, as well as on Amazon itself. And here are the latest stats:
- Sold to bookshops: 10 copies
- Sold via Amazon: 25 copies
- Draft2Digital: zero
- Google Play: zero
- Gumroad: 1 copy
- Kobo Rakuten: zero
- Barnes & Noble: zero
- Smashwords: zero
So that’s a total of 36 copies. On the plus side, I’m getting excellent reviews – five five-star ratings on Amazon already. So onwards and upwards, as I promise my poor little books that I will give them the promo help they deserve.