Sendings on Amazon - Price Reduction

I have reduced the price for Sendings on Amazon down a dollar to $1.99, in line with its price on FifoBooks. I may reduce this even further, if the system will allow me, to $0.99, just to help with sales, since I am not interested in making money off it.

Anyway, I'll see how this improves the number of downloads. So far there has just been one.

E-Books - An Update

I've left this update a week since my last as it really has gone a bit flat regarding downloads from FifoBooks. The sales so far are:

The Worst of All Possible Places 19 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons 19 downloads
Sendings has increased by 2 to 5 downloads. It's nice to see that this has actually increased, albeit only slightly.

If anyone, who has read either The Worst of All Possible Places or Sendings, would like to put a review of them on Amazon I would be eternally grateful. The links to Amazon are:

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

E-Books - Another Update

I've left this update even longer than the last as it really does seem to have gone a bit flat regarding downloads from FifoBooks. The sales so far are:

The Worst of All Possible Places 19 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons 18 downloads
Sendings is the same as before at 3 downloads

If anyone who has read either The Worst of All Possible Places or Sendings would like to put a review of them on Amazon I would be eternally grateful. The links to Amazon are:

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

E-Books - Update

I've left this a few days as it seems to have gone a bit flat regarding downloads from FifoBooks. The sales so far are:
The Worst of All Possible Places now 16 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons now 15 downloads
Sendings is the same as before at 3 downloads

If anyone who has read either The Worst of All Possible Places or Sendings would like to put a review of them on Amazon I would be eternally grateful. The links to Amazon are:

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

E-Books - Update

Some small increases on two of the books I have on FifoBooks, though only the free downloads:

The Worst of All Possible Places now has had 14
Their Own Mad Demons has had 12
Sendings still stands at 3

Still, it's nice to see the first two gradually increasing. At least someone is interested.

I have no idea how things are on Amazon. I think I'll have to wait for them  to send me their report as and when.

E-Books - Further Update

After reading some of the comments on the Shocklines thread on this issue I decided to have a go at uploading a couple of items onto Amazon. The process is quite different to FifoBooks and I had a few problems to start with. But I soon sorted them out and managed it. There's a review period of 48 hours before new items appear on Amazon. 

I uploaded Sendings. I had to price this at $2.99. I couldn't price it lower than this. Likewise, I couldn't upload The Worst of All Possible Places as free, so that's $0.99, the cheapest I could set it for. 
Anyway, that's something else for me to keep an eye on now. It could be a good comparison with the earlier uploads.

E-Books - Update

Since yesterday these are the new stats for the books on FifoBooks:

The Worst of All Possible Places has risen from 6 to 11 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons, which hadn't sold any yesterday, has had 3 downloads
Sendings has risen from 1 to 2 downloads.

Other than Sendings, all of these, of course, are free downloads.

A new thread has started on Shocklines on this subject, which is very interesting. Keith Goeveia, in particular, seems to have done well on Amazon, which is a company I think I'll take a look at next. It could be good to get some comparisons.

E-books - update

No change since yesterday apart from Shaun's very kind download of Sendings.

That's 6 free downloads of The Worst of All Possible Places

No free downloads of Their Own Mad Demons

1 $1.99 download of Sendings 

I think I'll have to put my early retirement plans on the back burner for a while.

So far I have given links to FifoBooks on the BFS Forum, Shocklines and Twitter, as well as here and on Rileybooks' shop website. The thread on Shocklines has already had 202 visits. There have probably been as many again on the BFS site.

Again, it's possibly early days yet. But I'll keep a regular update going just to see.

E-Books - update

I've had a couple of e-books on FifoBooks for three days now, (The Worst of All Possible Places and Sendings) with a new one (Their Own Mad Demons) uploaded last night.

So far there have been 6 downloads, all for The Worst of All Possible Places. No interest yet in Sendings, which is the only one to be paid for ($1.99). Still, it's early days and, hopefully, the two free downloads might encourage someone to chance $1.99 on the novel.

 Whatever happens, I'll publish the information here.

Their Own Mad Demons

I have now put this onto FifoBooks as a free download. The story was originally published in The Fifth Black Book of Horror.

Their Own Mad Demons

I am working on putting this long story (novella), published in the Fifth Black Book of Horror, online on FifoBooks as another free download.

The Worst of All Possible Places - novella

I've managed, not only to put this on FifoBooks as a free download, but changed the cover for Sendings too! Not a bad day's toil.

Sendings and The Worst of All Possible Places

I have put The Worst of All Possible Places on as a free download. As I mentioned earlier, the theory is that, if anyone reads and like this enough, they'll possibly go on and download Sendings for $1.99. Well, that's the theory anyway!

And here's a widget to take anyone interested direct to FifoBooks:

The Worst of All Possible Places - novella

This novella was first published in the BFS anthology, Houses on the Borderland, edited by Dave Sutton. I am seriously considering adding this to FifoBooks as a free download as a way to get anyone browsing that site to take a look at my stuff - and, perhaps, as a result be tempted to download Sendings too at $1.99. Is that a realistic strategy? It would be interesting to see what happens. And, since I can see at a glance how many, if any (!) downloads there have been, I'll at least get some kind of idea if it works.

All I need now is some appropriate artwork for the cover.

Sendings

Here's a copy of an alternative cover I was working on: 

I did consider changing it for the one I used, but it doesn't look as if I can. Shame.  I think...

Sendings

FifoBooks have emailed me with advice to:

Tell your friends on Facebook

Post a tweet on Twitter

Both should be interesting experiences as I've never used either. My wife has a Facebook account, and even though she rarely uses it I suppose I could get some advice off her, but as for Twitter?  Still, it is the 21st Century and, if I'm prepared to take the plunge with this e-book, I suppose I may as well go all the way. After all, what's to lose?

Apart from valuable time perhaps better spent writing.

Ahem!

I'm still working on Lucilla, which I'm finding much more fascinating for me than anything I've previously written at this length. I've also got to find time to take another look at the last novel I managed to complete, The Return, and make whatever changes it needs before submitting it somewhere. I like this novel, though it is dark - perhaps one of the bleakest stories I have ever written, apart from The Worst of All Possible Places in Houses on the Borderland. I don't suppose I could get much bleaker than that. But they're horror stories, and you don't get many rays of sunshine in them.

Anyway, I'll be taking a look at Twitter some time today, though the name doesn't particularly appeal to me. Perhaps it's the "twit" part.

Sendings

I have managed to put Sendings for sale on FifoBooks, complete with a cover. It will be interesting to see how this does. Link

Many thanks, Shaun, for putting me on to the software I needed to download to dabble with the photograph and put some writing on it. It's not a particularly gripping cover, I suppose, but I have seen worse (check out the cover someone made for Goblin Mire). It's a photo of one of a couple of semi-derelict properties we bought in Bulgaria for a song a few years ago.The house beyond the gate - or, at least, the front of it - has gone now, stolen by gypsies. Or so we were told by a local pig farmer, George, a Bulgarian. Though I wouldn't be surprised if some of his pigs hadn't had some improvements to their homes! Anyway, it was no great loss, since the house was tumbling down, even though it was lived in up until the time we bought it!

Sendings - update

Spent some time last night converting the text of Sendings so that I can eventually post it on FifoBooks as an ebook. I need to work on the cover next. Unfortunately, all the software I have that could do this for me is years old and won't work on Windows XP Professional. I have a suitable photograph but not the means to put the title lettering on it. Annoying. It looks as if I'll have to spend money on getting some suitable software, unless I can find a free download that will do the job for me. Which is what I'll look for first. After all, I don't exactly need anything particularly sophisticated for the job.