WORK IN PROGRESS

STOPPING POWER audio is now in the distribution phase and should start appearing with retailers in 3-5 days, or up to 45 days for Audible. When it’s available in Audible that’s when I’ll start promoting it.

The edit for THEIR RIGHT TO VENGEANCE seems to be taking a lot of time but I’m around 60% of the way through. I have the day off today so I’m hoping to make progress once I’m back from the dreaded dentist.

What with paying for the audiobook and lots of new stock to offset the Amazon prices rises, this is the first time in a long while that I’ve had to pay my own money into my writing rather than covering it with sales. This is also in part because I’ve had to pay out lots for advertising but the increased sales have a delay of three months. I get my first enhanced payments this month. I soon have to pay for my 2024 events and I have production costs for THEIR RIGHT TO VENGEANCE coming up so I’m going to have to put more money in very soon.

EVENTS

It was my first turn out in Lymington on Saturday and it was a good one, posting a profit of a little over what I made in Salisbury the week before. The sales were across my range of books and with my new table layout, I was promoting each of the series with equal weighting.

Here’s a look at the new layout which groups the books together in series whilst also being next to the most appropriate other series. I think the layout is much less cluttered and the little signs, which need some tweaking, tell people what the books are about if I’m not able to speak with them if I’m talking to someone else.

I managed to sell another Dyslexic friendly edition of IN THE END and it continues to be a great talking point for many people who look over my offering.

My next event is in Romsey on the first Saturday of July and it’s another first time.

MARKETING AND PROMOTION

Sales have been strong for IN THE END but they tapered off again in the last few days. I have republished the Facebook adverts to refresh them and also so I could remove some comments which caused Facebook to filter my post as possibly offensive. One potential reader asked if there was any rape depictions in the series, which there are not, as they were a trigger for her. Unfortunately that led to the platform applying a filter which I only found out about after someone commented that Facebook’s moderation was a woke joke!

I have stopped the ads for STOPPING POWER as they hadn’t grown any traction. I need to think again about how I am going to promote them.

I think that’s everything covered for this week. It’s head down and time for writing. Comments and suggestions welcomed as always.