Here We Go With KDP...Again

So, I did another Free Days on Amazon with 3 different books.

Hers To Choose got on BookBub and the downloads were amazing!!

Of course sales for HTChoose have withered but what made this promotion work is the other two books PAK has out {Hers To Command & Hers To Cherish} that's the real reason I did BookBub.

Had I submitted Luke's Tale...I think it would have just been a free book and withered sales with no sequel to propel. 

Thus, we did the Author Marketing Club Free days submissions as we did before and got a great beginning, a steady middle and a

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fantastic push from our most awesome PR guru ~ Travis.

We scheduled the books to go free at the end of the month and I think that made a huge difference in sales and free download numbers.

The third book was not a novel but a short story. It's KDP did as well as a short story would do as if treated like a red-headed step-child.

I still believe in short stories, and I'll continue to write them and publish them, but I've noticed a trend in my writing to where I want to write longer and longer stories.

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So perhaps my short stories will become novellas and then to actual novels. I have two full length novels that are being prepared to come out in 2014 and hopefully I won't pull them back this time.

But, what I've learned from this Free days are a few things:

1. Use the big guns when you have at least 2 other books available to buy ~ preferably in the series.
2. Use all the free promotions and a little bit of paid promo to have decent download counts and sales after the free days for 1 or 2 books by an author.
3. Kindle free days works if you use it like a genius {like me~not} and prepare for it ahead of time.
4. Keep the momentum going. <-- more on that later!!

ACTION ITEM: Only use KDP Select wisely. You might snort at me and say "what's wise?" Spend money when you have 3 or more books, don't go overboard when you have only 1 - 2 books.

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