Category: Updates

A Year of Renovations

In 2017, I published the first 5 books in the Infinite Vampire series. I did it, but it was a brutal amount of work and it nearly killed me! After the last book was published, I took a short break and finally found a house we wanted. We bought it in Nov. ’17. A year has passed, and I’ve done very little writing. I’ve done a lot of legal work on the Infinite Vampire brand, ran promotions, fixed all known typos and tweaked the book covers, and I worked on setting up the audiobooks, but I didn’t publish anything new.…

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Amazon Advertising, take…23?

I’ve tried Amazon Advertising a lot, and I just tried it again. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong! At first I let Amazon place the ads, and that didn’t result in any sales. I tried where I placed the ads, but that didn’t work either (although I did get 1 sale). I’m not sure if the problem is the series itself (irreverent, silly, badass, action, dark comedy, paranormal crossover), an issue with my covers not being inviting, or that I’m an unknown author. Eh, oh well. So far the best advertising I’ve ever done was on Facebook, but with…

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Freebooksy.com Series Promotion

I purchased a Freebooksy.com series promotion for the Infinite Vampire series on Sep. 14, 2018, and I made the first book, BLOOD 4LIFE free for that day. I had 2,179 downloads of the free book! Now, people that download a ton of books for free, rarely read them all, and they rarely read them soon after downloading. Finally, few readers actually review books. That said, I may not get much from this promotion other than an increase in exposure and reach, but that’s ok. I still had hopes: I hoped readers would buy the other books in the series after…

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