Several months after beginning the process, my novel Déjà Vu is now available in paperback. It’s identical to the Kindle edition (i.e. the second edition). If you’re really keen on buying a paperback of the book, you’ll see a link to the paperback on Déjà Vu’s Kindle page. Here is a direct link. Now, the [...]
In the thrilling sequel to yesterday’s blog post over at Scott Pack’s blog, I’m back with some data about sales and income.
M’colleague Matt F W Curran recently sent me some questions about my adventures in the ebook trade. I thought my answers might be useful to others, so I’ve posted them here. Did you e-publish via an e-publisher? No, I decided that it would be best to control the process myself. One of the more frustrating [...]
Probably not. But the data for sales of my novel, Déjà Vu, which I’ve published on the Kindle, iBooks and Smashwords, point to a sales ratio of about 1000:1. Kindle Sales Déjà Vu unit sales per month, beginning in March, are: 320, 938, 915, 738, 844, 643 and 581. Smashwords (this includes Barnes and Noble, [...]
Did I mention that I’ve been gate-crashing Scott Pack’s blog with some stats on my how well my books are selling? Your friend and mine, Scott, left me a message at our usual dead drop – behind the third cervical vertebra of the diplodocus in the foyer of the Natural History Museum. In somewhat breathless [...]
It’s over at BigAl’s Books and Pals. Déjà Vu is a science fiction novel set in the fairly near future, and it introduces technology that I can already see myself using and keeping in my pocket. I found the mechanical wonders a lot of fun, and I think the characters are well-drawn, as one might [...]
A couple of months back I tried to publish Déjà Vu for iBooks via Lulu. It didn’t work so I gave up in disgust. Then I tried to publish it with Smashwords. It didn’t work there, either, so I gave up in disgust. All the more perplexing for me, then, that there are now two [...]
I’ve spent the last few days preparing Déjà Vu for publication on Smashwords. This company provides electronic versions of books. Whereas Amazon only supports the Kindle (fair enough), Smashwords is a one-size fits all solution. Whatever your ebook reader, you’re likely to find a format that works. Here is Déjà Vu’s Smashwords page. This might [...]
A couple of years back, I was faced with a group of twenty-five nervous freshers in a first-year psychology seminar. I broke the ice by playing the Three Things About Me game. This game – or, at least, the version I play – involves saying three things about yourself. Two things must be true and [...]
Over the past week or so, I’ve being making rounds to various blogs. Over at Scott Pack’s place, I’ve been writing about my experiences of publishing Déjà Vu: So I’m looking at this Amanda Hocking headline. Flecks of tea are moving down the screen of my laptop like the raw Matrix. The half-formed idea in [...]