I have a website that I use to hold adult-rated versions of my fanfic that can't be posted on fanfiction.net. That's pretty cool, in a way. If someone wants to read my fanfic, it's a good centralized location. It's pretty bare-bones, though, and I haven't updated it in over a year. I've written a bunch of fic in the meantime. All that fic, or at least 95% of it, is at AO3, where I can post full adult-rated versions of stories without any problem. Everything at AO3 exists elsewhere on the internet as well, so it's not like I have all my eggs in that one basket; I generally post all my fic at my writing LJ and use AO3 as a backup.
I think I'm going to let the domain for my personal site expire and buy a new one for my original fic endeavors. This seems like a better use of the money. I could post sample first chapters there, and character bios, and fun things like that. And I suppose I could always use a corner of that website as the fanfic archive... but, eh. Happily, the majority of the reasons I needed to get a website have been met by AO3.
Showing posts with label promotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label promotions. Show all posts
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013
I made myself a goal before I started this little adventure. After all, goals are good.
I decided that my goal would be to make $20.00 from sales of my books. (That's not the sale price; that's from the royalties on the books themselves.)
The good news is that I am almost there, which is really neat. The books have been available for just under a month. I'm not really expecting them to sell much more unless I do something else; I can't run another free Amazon promotion until the current promotion period is over, which is in August. I was very pleased with the number of downloads from that promotion. But the July 4 weekend is coming up, and I like the idea of having a sale over that weekend. I think making the first three books available for $0.99 each would be pretty awesome.
So if you know someone who might like the books, promotion time! I'm trying to consider possible promotion methods that won't make me feel like a total jerk. Maybe boosting Google presence is a good thing to do... but my instinct tells me not necessarily. Availability on platforms other than the Kindle isn't a bad idea either; I would need to prepare the books before the middle of August, though, because preparing them might take a little while.
Anyway. Something to ponder.
Right now, though, I'm working on one of the Nancy Drew fanfics I've had in progress for a bit... partially because I'm almost finished with the story, and partially because I have the instant gratification of feedback on it, which is very valuable to me.
I decided that my goal would be to make $20.00 from sales of my books. (That's not the sale price; that's from the royalties on the books themselves.)
The good news is that I am almost there, which is really neat. The books have been available for just under a month. I'm not really expecting them to sell much more unless I do something else; I can't run another free Amazon promotion until the current promotion period is over, which is in August. I was very pleased with the number of downloads from that promotion. But the July 4 weekend is coming up, and I like the idea of having a sale over that weekend. I think making the first three books available for $0.99 each would be pretty awesome.
So if you know someone who might like the books, promotion time! I'm trying to consider possible promotion methods that won't make me feel like a total jerk. Maybe boosting Google presence is a good thing to do... but my instinct tells me not necessarily. Availability on platforms other than the Kindle isn't a bad idea either; I would need to prepare the books before the middle of August, though, because preparing them might take a little while.
Anyway. Something to ponder.
Right now, though, I'm working on one of the Nancy Drew fanfics I've had in progress for a bit... partially because I'm almost finished with the story, and partially because I have the instant gratification of feedback on it, which is very valuable to me.
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