Anyway, it's true that I read a lot more than most other people. At least two books a month if it's summer and I have other things to do in my free time. The other nine tenths of the year I usually read between 1 and 5 books a week. During vacations when the weather is bad that can turn into 15.
But, yes, after I read the first couple of Thor books (following the links from goodreads which I found after I read some stupid bible thumper mom's rant about the Keeley books her daughter was reading and got curious just what on earth got that woman so riled up) I assumed there wouldn't be any more until, about a year later, I went through some authors I liked on amazon and found loads of new P.S.Power books...
Statistics: Posted by Kat — Thu May 28, 2015 3:37 pm
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I'll also add a vote of confidence for Amazon Select; I first read the Keeley Thomson, not-Zack Hartley*, really-Zack Hartley**, and Eve Benson books through Kindle Unlimited, which draws from Amazon Select.
*Alternate Places, which, at the time, confused the bejeebers out of me as I tried to get it to fit in with Keeley and Eve!
**Other Places, obviously
Statistics: Posted by bitflipper — Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:19 pm
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This allows for Amazon to lend the books with their special program, which works decently enough.
I tried using Smashwords for Ijime, but found that nothing happened at all on it. I mean no real action. I was giving the book away free there too, and Amazon still beat it by a hundred and six copies. Those, on Amazon were .99 cents. So, while I was thinking about doing it that way, it doesn't seem to work well for me a this time.
I can format things into different versions, but it takes a lot of work, for little actual use, again, so far.
I'll probably try it again in the future, but for now I'm planning to stick with Kindle. Now, the trick there is that, if I don't go with select, I can sell the books directly in other formats, say from the web-site? If there is ever enough interest for that. The market keeps altering, so who knows what may come?
I'd rather people be able to read the books than not, but like I said, it's a lot of work and I'd want at least a bit of repayment for my time, even if only in readership.
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:19 pm
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I don't recall, but is there something in the comments at the end about the schedule being faster than "normal"? Maybe that would get more folks to pay attention. That, and having copies off of Amazon maybe. I've had several friends ask about authors and you're the first one I mention, but I'm forever finding people that don't have a Kindle or hate Amazon or some other reason that they can't find the books.
Statistics: Posted by iamentropy — Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:17 pm
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The rest are Juniors.
Keeley is about at the end of her current arc, but that doesn't mean she won't be around or have another set of books later. If people want them, then I'll put them out, but this is a bit of a waiting period for me. Right now people aren't finding the books fast enough to make it worthwhile to keep writing them really.
Hence the mailing list, as mentioned above!
*My theory on book sales: Most of the time a "new" author, will develop a fan base for their books over several years time. So they have a full year between books to work up a new crowd that wants to read the next one, and sales are good when it comes out. The rate of books is slower than people like, but they still have more time to find things, as a group.
The new world of publishing means that things can come out faster, but we don't have mechanisms in place for everyone to keep up with all of it. I have an odd sense that a lot of people have read "to date" in a series or two and then pulled back, thinking it will be a year for the next one to come out, so haven't even bothered looking again. Really, I think that it's about 70% or more of all readers that do that, too.
So me continuing to put out new works all the time just means some of them are sitting there, even if they're well received, have good editing and nice covers on them.
I stronger person would probably wait before bringing anything out for a while. Since that isn't my way, I need some other way to impact the process.
If anyone has ideas, let me know!
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:01 pm
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Don't end Keeley Dale! The YA length means she hasn't gotten as much screen time as anyone else but she's one of your most popular characters.
Statistics: Posted by Mark — Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:42 am
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So, the point was, other than that I need to pay closer attention to peoples names, that there should be a mailing list/announcement thing coming soon! It will be big. Huge. Like tens of people, or possibly more!
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:32 pm
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It will be talked about here, and also linked in the back of all the reformatted books. (Which means going back and inserting it into everything!)
Ang? Hmmm. Possible. I have no story in mind for him yet. Dragon's are the most powerful of the shifters, but too much power can lead to boring stories. Now a rabbit shifter hero might be interesting... "What? You say you feel superior to others because you have the amazing ability to shape shift into lunch? I guess that is a talent... and I do feel a might peckish."
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:44 am
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