A Wonderful Friend Bought My E-Book!
The only copy of Gemini Craving (renamed Two Little Girls) to be sold is going to be read by someone.
Amazon notified me this morning via email. I managed to click on the Japanese link without realising it and assumed it was a scam. I sent the email to spam. Then I thought it might be worth investigating on the KDP website.
Ten minutes later I’d managed to access one of my many Amazon KDP accounts through Amazon.com. I realise my bank account details are for a closed Czech (not a spelling mistake) account from six years ago. I updated them pronto. Perhaps when the payment of £2.77 bounces back from Prague it’ll come to me in Scotland!
Unless you’ve written a book and been crazy or brave enough to bare your combined real and imagined life, you won’t know the elation I’m experiencing this morning. I highly recommend it.
The e-book was bought on the Amazon.au site. I have a sneaking suspicion I know who did the delightful deed, Alison Tennent. However, it might have been my childhood penpal, Sharyn or someone else that lives in Australia that knows I wrote a book under the pseudonym, Alessa Grace.
The low point, which I am now experiencing, is that five years ago my grammar and punctuation were almost non-existent. But better than ten years ago that’s for sure.
Even now, I can still write a ninety-word sentence with no commas. But these days, I will go back to edit it and let Grammarly guide me as to where the commas should be placed.
My plan is to edit each chapter before I publish it on News Break. The first one with 1 million impressions and 106 thousand page views did well. Okay, beyond my wildest dreams is more accurate.
The second chapter. Not bad.
The third stats are below. It’s a slow burn.
These statistics tell me there is an audience for my story. But I’ll feel a lot better about the quality when I’ve edited every chapter with what I know now.
So, if you are interested in reading a chapter a week go to News Break.
Or go to Amazon to read the re-titled and renamed e-book. Alessa Grace is now officially relegated to the past.
Blimey, I think I might be getting braver at marketing my work. What are your successes and how do you market them?
A year of writing on Medium, specifically the ILLUMINATION family of publications has taught me to not be shy about marketing.
If we don’t do it ourselves, it’s likely nobody will magically discover us.
If we don’t branch out and try other platforms, we may never know what we are capable of.
Be brave, seize your chances and keep trying new avenues as often as possible. You never know what might happen.
Why not start by sharing your work with your writer friends on SYNERGY?
Thanks for reading.
