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HUNTED on sale...the experience
Yesterday, I ran an ad announcing my book HUNTED was $0.99 until March 17th at all the e-book venues, (Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo and Smashwords). About an hour after it went out, the book sales flew off the charts. Yea! I suspected this would happen. What I didn't expect was my husband's reaction to it.
See, he's a computer engineer with a math IQ on the genius side. Note: He DOESN'T read fiction. Has never read one of my books. And quite frankly I don't think I want him to.
However, he has always been very supportive of me through the lean years of no published works and these fun days of publishing my stories. Now, give the man a set of numbers and statistics to look at and he's in geek heaven!!
It started when the sales numbers on B&N came in. Not only was HUNTED selling, but so was KIDNAPPED. Of course he had to figure out the cross over sales percentage, (your eyes crossing yet, mine were). He figured out it fluctuated between 4-8%. Uh. Cool.
Then he discovered sales ranking numbers on Amazon. OMG. First the Kindle and books>romantic suspense list top 100, then the books>literature and fiction top 100 and the ranking of total Kindle ranking. The numbers kept getting smaller, which made the ranking higher. Hourly, I got a report.
Then the man found the "author ranking" near the bottom of the page. OMG again! I'd made the top 100 of like four of those. Imagine how fun it was to be awakened in the wee hours of the morning with the news that I'd gotten within 2 of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
So, between me giggling over the sales numbers and cool rankings, and watching hubby go into math mode, it's been a lovely experience.
I appreciate everyone who has taken the time and interest in HUNTED. Hope you'll leave me a review to let me know how you liked it either here or at one of the books sites.
AND if you haven't had a chance to try my Edgars' family Romantic Suspense series, please give KIDNAPPED and HUNTED a try.
See, he's a computer engineer with a math IQ on the genius side. Note: He DOESN'T read fiction. Has never read one of my books. And quite frankly I don't think I want him to.
However, he has always been very supportive of me through the lean years of no published works and these fun days of publishing my stories. Now, give the man a set of numbers and statistics to look at and he's in geek heaven!!
It started when the sales numbers on B&N came in. Not only was HUNTED selling, but so was KIDNAPPED. Of course he had to figure out the cross over sales percentage, (your eyes crossing yet, mine were). He figured out it fluctuated between 4-8%. Uh. Cool.
Then he discovered sales ranking numbers on Amazon. OMG. First the Kindle and books>romantic suspense list top 100, then the books>literature and fiction top 100 and the ranking of total Kindle ranking. The numbers kept getting smaller, which made the ranking higher. Hourly, I got a report.
Then the man found the "author ranking" near the bottom of the page. OMG again! I'd made the top 100 of like four of those. Imagine how fun it was to be awakened in the wee hours of the morning with the news that I'd gotten within 2 of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
So, between me giggling over the sales numbers and cool rankings, and watching hubby go into math mode, it's been a lovely experience.
I appreciate everyone who has taken the time and interest in HUNTED. Hope you'll leave me a review to let me know how you liked it either here or at one of the books sites.
AND if you haven't had a chance to try my Edgars' family Romantic Suspense series, please give KIDNAPPED and HUNTED a try.
