July Amazon Results
Buckle in guys, this could be the best month i’ll ever have or the start of the beginning. Who knows, right?
So, at the end of last month I launched book two. It went ok. But you know what is better then ok? When people read book one and then read book two straight away!
At the beginning of the month I entered the Magazine Cosmo’s competition to find a spicy writer. It was the hardest 800 words I’ve ever written. I tortured myself more over those 800 words then the last 200,000 I wrote in book one and two. No Joke. The results if i get into the ‘runners up’ comes out on the 12th August. I doubt I won because I haven’t received an email. But thats ok, I just so badly want to be a runner up.
On Thursday 14th I woke to 1,000,000 page reads for The Secret Club on Kindle Unlimited. That on it’s own is staggering to me. Just a baby debut indie author reaching one million of anything is astonishing.
Then I did something that I belly ached over for weeks. I was going to Tierney Page’s book event and I wanted to gift her my book. Then I didn’t. Then I did but with other things like a hamper but nothing sat right, it all just felt yuck. Then I had the idea of making an interactive reading experience for her. One where she opened wrapped gifts at different stages in my book. I adored her book event, loved listening to her interview where I walked away with a fascinating insight to her life and writing experience. Tierney is one cool cookie. I had to buy Imodium before the event in the city because I thought I was going to shit myself like her cat Basil in her book. But I met her, I got her book signed and I gifted her my curated book experience. Then I didn’t sleep a wink that night. Since then I’ve been in turmoil of whether I upset her, offended her or should never have gifted her my book to begin with. But do you know what? The regret I would feel if I hadn’t tried would be ten thousand times worse. So I’m going to suck it up and prey she hd a giggle if nothing more. I mean, I did gift her a vibrating butt plug after all. I kid you not.
Ok, so book results. First to note - 100 orders were the free kindle prizes for the Goodreads giveaway I did in June.
July results:
Orders: 258 (100 free kindle Goodreads giveaway)
KENP: 623,800
Amazon Reviews: 229 (4.4%)
Amazon Followers: 274
Goodreads Reviews: 249 (4.17%)
Goodreads Followers: 26
Preorders Book #3: 93
Epic July acheivement: Reaching 1,000,000 page reads on KU
This month has indeed been epic. Entering that Cosmo competition, writing Book Three - The Secret Proposal, attending Tierneys event. Making the 1mil milestone. Making over 600k KU page reads just in this month. I even started writing a new book whist I wait for my editor on Book three. I don’t know if i’ll ever match this month but gosh, its been wild being here. What book did I start writing I hear you cry? Women in Warehouse 13. Watch this space October :)
Ruby x