Rick Soper's Blog - Posts Tagged "rick-soper"

After not posting for months, now I've posted a few times in a few days. I just released the second episode of my Reading Series which features my second book The Singer. It's kind of funny to see me doing this, but really who likes to watch themselves on camera, on the other hand the response that I'm getting on these videos has actually been pretty good, so I'm going to power through the rest of my books. I figure that the best promotional tool we have as authors is actually ourselves. I'm not a professional reader, but they're my words so I can say them with the enthusiasm and emphasis that I intended, or at least that's what I'm hoping I'm doing. I should be throwing myself into my next writing project, but I'm and independent author, and there's no one but me to promote my books, so I'm going spend some time, and put some effort into doing just that, a little promotion. I put a lot of time and effort into my books so I should put as much effort into promoting the books so potential readers can find the books. I'd rather be writing, but sometimes you have to take time out to do a little promotion. Hopefully people will enjoy The Reading Series and in turn enjoy my books.

A few weeks ago I finally published The Stage the third and final book in my Rock Series of Books that include The Rock Star, The Singer, and The Stage. At the same time I published the combination of the three books which I created a separate cover for and called The Rock Series, which you can see pictured above. I priced the series at $7.99 which I thought was a great deal because the individual books at 3.99 add up to 11.97, so on the Series the reader is saving 3.98, which basically means they are getting one full novel for free. I'd seen other authors do this same thing, but they usually put the three into a "boxed-set" without any special cover. I've been surprised since I released the Series that the individual books are selling much better than the full series, especially since I've been blasted in a few reviews here at Goodreads because the individual books lead into each other without a wrap-up until the end. I'm not sure if I actually packaged the series as a "box-set" if it might be more appealing to readers or if readers actually like to bite off the individual books because they are easier to consume one at a time. I don't know maybe I just need to be better about telling people that the series is there and it's a good deal. So I guess what I'm trying to communicate here is "Hey The Rock Series is available... And it's a really good deal"
And with that my job is done :-)
I hope you pick up a copy and enjoy the Series.