I am now 100 percent more successful with one of my books than yesterday: One copy of Cheaper & Better has sold! My theory, after watching the Kindle selling bars, (see below) is that it’s all word of mouth after all. Once a book starts to sell, it just keeps selling, a few a day. It’s a modern-day miracle.
It’s been a great day to watch the numbers just rolling, rolling in. See yesterday’s entry if you’re unsure about the goings on here. The final tally was 597 free ebooks downloaded during my very first promotion, ever. I feel very gratified and accomplished. I have worked my way through the Amazon labyrinth, following all the rules, and now we wait and see if a free promotion does any good. According to the members of Amazon’s own forum, I shouldn’t get my hopes up. But, since I’m starting from zero sales, there’s lots of room for growth here. 🐔
I’m having great anxiety about trying to sell my books in this new self-publishing environment that the current web had made possible. Nonetheless, I have gotten three of my old books spruced up and digitized, and every once in a while I will be giving each of them away for free! Today is going to be the day for Cheaper & Better, a how-to book that is now a classic, at least in my own mind.
I’ve posted these photos in the funky colors that remain from the original Kodachrome, which does have a tendency to fade. It’s not as severe a fade as the movie boxes in the video store in Venice facing the sun, but it’s bad enough. Fading is especially sad if you knew the original.
The scene here is our first apartment, my first married Christmas away from my childhood home. My own first child is already here as a law-abiding fetus, but so small as to be unknowable, except to me. We had been in the apartment for two months, and all the furniture had been donated by our parents. Husband Dave was 23; I was 19 and thought fuzzy hanging dangling pom-poms made everything look better. Sincerely.
Yesterday’s entry was cut short by a sudden migraine that just crept up on me, had its way with me, and now is gone. I had intended to write more and include the pretty picture you see here, but the colors were throbbing off the screen and I couldn’t bear to look at it. That’s how it goes … some headaches turn into migraines and the tiniest thing can become a splinter of pain … and when the headache goes away, I am the happiest person in the universe. So happy. So grateful.