You might want to read the first post about the pen name book before you read this one because I’m not going to rehash what I’ve already said, just talk about what’s happened since the two week mark.
I haven’t gotten the next book out yet. Fact is, if you read this blog you’ll already know my production is not where I want it. I’m hopeful I’ll get the next book out in December, but it means I need to be successful in getting my word count up!
If I don’t improve my speed to publication for this series, this experiment isn’t going to teach me anything I haven’t already learned from my main pen name books. That’s because I’ve ended up not experimenting with price like I had originally intended.
I did a Kindle Countdown deal with the pen name book in mid-September and that led to a few more sales, but at reduced prices. I had it priced $ .99 for one day only and set to go up in $1 increments until it was full price again.
I’ve had some additional sales at full price too (full price being $6.99). I was getting a few reads here and there but it had really tapered off, and then for some reason on the 15th of this month, the book started to get very regular reads.
What I’m hoping this means is that this series could do well if I got more books out. I don’t know though. My experience to date with my main pen name has been that if a book doesn’t sell well right off, it won’t take off just because I’m releasing more books. They sell more, don’t get me wrong, but none of the series that didn’t start off strong suddenly sell great just because I’ve published more books in those series.
I’d love to have this series with the new pen name behave differently. :D The other view is a bit disheartening when it comes to series I love but feel I shouldn’t spend much time on because it won’t pay off in the long run.
| US | UK | AU | IN | ||
| Earnings | |||||
| 2015 07 | 68.71 | 14.79 | 6.96 | ||
| 2015 08 | 30.50 | 3.28 | 277.61 | ||
| 2015 09 | 61.71 | 1.29 | |||
| Total Earnings | 160.92 | 19.37 | 6.96 | 277.61 | |
| Sales | |||||
| 2015 07 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 14 | |
| 2015 08 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2015 09 | 28 | 28 | |||
| Total Sales | 40 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 44 |
| KENP Reads | |||||
| 2015 07 | 4,681 | 2,301 | 6,982 | ||
| 2015 08 | 4,988 | 984 | 5,972 | ||
| 2015 09 | 6,733 | 386 | 7,119 | ||
| Total Reads | 16,402 | 3,671 | 20,073 |
So far in October, I’ve had 2 full price sales and about 7,000 pages read. There’s been absolutely nothing except for that unadvertised Kindle Countdown deal to keep the momentum for this book going, so I guess I’ve been very lucky that it hasn’t dropped to 0 all around. :D
I’ll save the next update for after I get the second book in the series out. Currently the plan is still to go three books at least before I make any judgments about this series.