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A belated Facebook posting which shows the results of a successful ad on BookBub.com on Friday, September 13, 2013:

Danny Cantrell
September 13, 2013
 




Number 95 and good night!

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#1 in Books > History > Americas > United States > State & Local
#1 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Americas > United States > State & Local > South
 
Who says Friday the 13th is unlucky? If only there were a source like BookBub through which independent publishers could affordably advertise daily!

Danny Cantrell
September 13, 2013
Number 95 and good night!

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#1 in Books > History > Americas > United States > State & Local
#1 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Americas > United States > State & Local > South

Here are this morning's Amazon.com rankings for my non-fiction book, The Unwritten Law - A True Crime of Passion, after appearing as the Featured Book of the Day on fkbooksandtips.com yesterday:

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,756 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Americas > United States > State & Local > South
#6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem
#9 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem

Please visit their site on Facebook and give them a "like." They're one of the top 5 sites available for independent authors such as myself to advertise.

Have a great day!

I thought I’d post the wonderful news about the results of my ad appearing yesterday on fkbooksandtips.com and their associated websites.

Here are today’s rankings for the kindle version of my book:

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,062 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > History > Americas > United States > State & Local > South

#34 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem

#38 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem

Thank you to everyone who has read, rated, reviewed, and/or recommended my book, and please keep doing what you’ve been doing. It’s very much appreciated!

If you are an author or have any author friends who would like to be added to the fkbooksandtips distribution list, please visit http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/for-authors/ and have them submit their email address to be added.  I highly recommend advertising on their site.

My book was featured today on this very popular blog site.  I highly recommend everyone visit the site for a daily look at free and discounted kindle books from mainstream and independent publishers alike.  Definitely worth your while!

The McCreary County Record covers the Whiltley City area, home of Pearl’s lover and his wife. Somerset is the town in which the murder occurred and the trial was held. I hope to receive interest in my book  from the locals, and perhaps be interviewed by phone for the Commonwealth Journal.

Here are two mentions of the murder of Pearl Decker Owens found in Google News:

Article Title: Woke Up, Saw Husband With Another; Killed Her http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19290215&id=ZqxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SCIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3689,3280250

Article Title: Wife Claims Mate Gave Murdered Rival Gifts: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xb8iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=27UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5674,3753995&dq=pearl+decker+owens&hl=en

I look forward to the day when all microfilmed newspapers can be found on the web.  I spent an entire day in the UK Library microfilm collection in Lexington gathering the 52 newspaper articles I used during my research for The Unwritten Law, along with about 4 hours of car time going to and from the library. 

 

For those who are interested in purchasing print copies of my book, The Unwritten Law, I wanted to explain how the books are printed.  Createspace.com, a division of Amazon.com, prints each book as the order comes in from Amazon.  As a result, authors no longer have to personally purchase a stack of their own books for mailing out to customers (however, if the author does a book signing, he or she has to order copies of their own book and pay the shipping to receive copies to sell at their book signing events). 
Amazon does a great job shipping their books (customers pay $3.99 to have any book shipped from them, but as those of you who are regular Amazon customers know, orders over $25 are shipped free). 
When I ordered the ISBN numbers for my book ($250 for 10 numbers, with a different number required for each different edition) and the Library of Congress control number, I had to order print copies of my book, pay shipping from Amazon, and then pay about $6.00 each (for postage and a mailer) to ship the required copy to Bowker (who sold me the ISBN numbers) and to the Library of Congress. 
This is a major improvement from the days when authors paid thousands of dollars to have books printed, but the cost of paying shipping twice is why I chose to not ship promo copies to countries outside of the US and Canada on the Goodreads site.
Perhaps I will be able to expand the promos overseas if The Unwritten Law becomes a best seller (with the help of my Facebook friends and family)!

I’m giving away 2 paperback copies of my book, The Unwritten Law, to residents of the US and Canada during the month of May at Goodreads.com.

Please enter to win the book you and your friends will be talking about!

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