I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. This is the next installment.
In a FB author’s marketing group a few of us are in, people will get all excited about stuff I don’t.
Today I saw a post about a guy saying one of his books finally broke the Amazon top 100,000.
That’s good. I know some of my books aren’t there right now.
But it made me wonder where OUR book was.
Well, check it out. 14,041 in the paid Kindle store.
That means right now our little book is in the top 20,000 of all books being sold on Amazon
WE JUST BROKE INTO THE TOP 20,000 ON ALL OF AMAZON!!!
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10 thoughts on “Marketing 101 – notes from the scary anthology, part 4: “Sex Sells, But Excitement Sells, Too!””
Everyone has done so well with this anthology, not just the fabulous stories but in pushing it up and up the charts. A big hug and cakes all round to everyone!
I keep dipping into our anthology to read as instinct takes me, some stories I’ve yet to get to but will, some I’ve read twice and one three or is it four times, each time I find more of the author’s mind, a complicated organ! Thing is, for me, this keeps the anthology alive in my mind, re-excites, and when I’m excited I talk … and tell even more folk of what it is we’ve done.
it is all very exciting! I’ll never forget my fam’s reception when I made the “published book” announcement to them! And they live in Texas, Alabama, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, etc., and they’re all excited, too!! Lots of chatter going on in lots of places!
I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. This is the next installment.
Everyone has done so well with this anthology, not just the fabulous stories but in pushing it up and up the charts. A big hug and cakes all round to everyone!
I read your creepy doll story last night right before bed. That was bad timing on my part.
But GREAT job on that story!
Oh thank you Allison, that means so much! I do hope you didn’t have nightmares. Dolls are so creepy, I think.
I agree. My sister collected them when we were growing up and I didn’t enjoy going into her room.
Ha! Definitely.
Got to have cake!
We have some paid advertising coming up this month, too!
I keep dipping into our anthology to read as instinct takes me, some stories I’ve yet to get to but will, some I’ve read twice and one three or is it four times, each time I find more of the author’s mind, a complicated organ! Thing is, for me, this keeps the anthology alive in my mind, re-excites, and when I’m excited I talk … and tell even more folk of what it is we’ve done.
Great point!
it is all very exciting! I’ll never forget my fam’s reception when I made the “published book” announcement to them! And they live in Texas, Alabama, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, etc., and they’re all excited, too!! Lots of chatter going on in lots of places!
It’s exciting to you and it shows. Friends like that.