While looking for something completely different today, I noticed that Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic had 17 ratings and 10 reviews up on Goodreads! Several of these reviews were unexpected and they made my day. Some were even up on other sites, including an online magazine. Big thanks to the reviewers! Please drop by and see what they said.
http://www.indtale.com/reviews/don%E2%80%99t-judge-book-its-magic
Hooray!
Remember when I said that the Goodreads giveaway was a good idea? Well it was a VERY good idea! I sold 603 copies of The Disenchanted Pet for Kindle in November!!! All I can think that I did to earn my success was to give it some free days with Select and then give it away on Goodreads for free. Did I miss something? Oh yes, promoting it for more than a year 😉 . That puts me at an impressive Amazon bestseller ranking of 99,629. Heheh.
On the flip side, not everyone’s reaction was positive: http://www.nathanshumate.com/?p=7550 If you read this, Nathan, I do plan to re-do this cover. It was my very first book, after all.
Don’t Judge a Book by its Magic by Kate Policani : Review, Author Specials and Giveaway.
Big thanks to Gaele for her great review! Drop on by her blog to win a copy.
I had such a great experience with my Goodreads giveaway of Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic, that I just had to give The Disenchanted Pet a go for a giveaway. What a great response already! I’ve sold more than a hundred ebooks on Amazon and a print book too. Why didn’t I try this earlier? Silly!
Here is the Goodreads giveaway of The Disenchanted Pet:
Giveaway ends December 01, 2012.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
OK! Some of you who have been reading my posts might say, “Kate! You hypocrite! You said you loved the 99 cent ebook and then you priced your book at $2.99! What’s wrong with you?”
Yes, I did say I believed in the 99 cent ebook and I still do. But there is a reason I’ve done such a crazy thing as price my book higher. Discounts.
If I price my book at 99 cents, there is no way for me to get the attention that comes from discounting my books. I’m at the bottom and the last step is free. SO! I’m pricing at $2.99 now and then discounting a few times until it goes to 99 cents. Unless it sells like crazy and then we’ll see. I’m not going to mess with something that’s working.
Do you get my plan though?
I learned some interesting things about Word this week, and I’m grumpy about it. I’m the kind of gal who only learns things out of necessity. Fortunately for my brain there is plenty of necessity. I learned about Sections in a document (Snooze!) and I learned about image resolution and conversion from Word to CreateSpace. I managed not to gouge out my eyes.
But I learned it and I think I have my manuscript cleaned up enough to pass the review. The Interior Reviewer is loading now and…the rassafrakin thing doesn’t like the image on page 44…still. Ugh! If you see a Toshiba laptop launching into orbit, you’ll know whose it is.
My advice to you writers: don’t learn it unless you need to. It’s all useless information that will be outdated in ten minutes anyway. The programs are designed, and rightfully so, to do all the ugly work for you. The level of complexity only compounds after that.
Now I’m going to mess with images again. Ugh!
Soon it will be all over and I can start smashing my head into my keyboard over promoting instead of formatting.
Huge thanks to Fox Cutter, who has reviewed my upcoming book here: http://foxcutter.livejournal.com/2012/10/18/ Fox was my Kickstarter hero, contributing the amount that made the difference and I got my funding! He’s written a very insightful review with a lot of great detail.
I’d be a terrible zombie because I wouldn’t get any juicy brains, just books.
Yes, I have another book forming! This is the second book in The Convergence series. Yes, I haven’t even released the first book, Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic, but I’ve started the second! It’s called, “Sorcery Loves Company“.
The question now is, which book will I finish first: Sorcery Loves Company or The Stray? It’s really a toss-up because it will depend on which inspires me first.
Hey! If you reply to this post with your guess as to which I finish first and you’re right, I’ll send you a free print copy when it’s released!
I’m getting ready for the Virtual party in a month and six days! Visit the Party Page for a list of participation needs: https://katepolicani.com/release-party/ I’m open to suggestions if you have a great idea for a way to join the party!
Here is a lovely review for my book, Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic, by The Bookworm Extraordinaire: http://www.thebookwormextraordinare.blogspot.com/2012/09/review-dont-judge-book-by-its-magic-by.html
And I’m the “Author of the Month” too! (That’s in the side margin)
The book release is set for Oct 26th! Be sure to mark the date ’cause we’re going to party!
Thanks again Bookworm!
My book is ready for pre-review! I won’t scream at you in a blog post, but know that I’m repressing a scream of excitement.
If you would like to pre-review my book, please email me at katepolicani(at)gmail.com and I’ll send you an e-copy. I will feature your review on my upcoming Virtual Release Party starting October 26th!
Starting August 1st, my downloads on Smashwords of my free ebook, The Silver Collar have shot up by over 1,000 downloads! This means that somewhere, my book was listed in a spot that people saw and clicked. But where?
I posted it on four different book-posting sites in July:
I did it before and I’ll do it again! I re-dressed my website in preparation for my upcoming release. What do you think?
On that note, I’ve also been experimenting with the embellishment idea some more:
This is the Think Tank’s current favorite. All of the permutations are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/katepolicani/sets/72157630844844184/
I felt like my cover needed something to look more like a professional cover than it did.
Here’s what it looked like after my first round of experiments:
This is what I came up with after some more tinkering:
What do you think of my changes? Should I keep them?
Kathleen is back to work editing my book! I am so excited! This means that we’ll probably be done around the end of August, beginning of September, and I’ll release the book at the end of October, perhaps for Halloween!
Please take a look at my Kickstarter project. I’m using it for a discount pre-order campaign and I’ve got some extra goodies if you’re feeling bold. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/523666041/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-magic-book-launch
This project has only 4 days left and I’m not sure if I’ll spend the time to do a second one. I won’t be offering any more pre-release digital copies unless you are pre-reviewing my book, so this is your last chance to get an advance copy for only $2. Even if the project doesn’t go through, all contributors can still get the deal they planned for, but you can’t get it if you don’t join the Kickstarter.
Be like Lorenzo: patronize an artist like me!
Kate Policani 