What's a great way to begin your day? How about finding out your book is up on a discussion board for a reading group?? It was rather surreal. Even better is what I read. BTS Book Club (On Goodreads) posted a thread for June/July on The Third Fate ! Exciting...for more than the obvious reason.You see, I've had slower sales with this title despite positive reviews posted through my book tour and a handful of generous readers. I've been scratching my head! Marketing produced a few bursts of sales, but not what I'd hoped.
Well, I may have discovered the reason - or one possible reason anyway. More appropriate to confess, I stumbled across it. Ha! I quickly searched my title on Google with the keywords Amazon Kindle added to pull up a quick link to throw in this post. Sure enough, my baby popped right up...WITH THE TAGS LITERATURE/FICTION! lol. Er...wrong tags for a paranormal romance! Of course I went immediately to my author dashboard and clicked on the title. Re-selecting my categories, I updated. I've no idea how this happened, but happen it did! Could be that The Third Fate was simply invisible to those searching titles for a new PR to devour. Fingers crossed. LOL.
Goals And Updates...
* Chapter 10 is underway in my current WIP. I broke the 30K mark last night. Smiles are abundant. Writing was slow this past week. We returned earlier this week from Ocean City, Maryland - where the beach was absolutely wonderful - and a visit to Annapolis, where DD#2 is stationed currently. Honestly, I cannot think of driving for a few weeks.
* I will resume the typing today if it kills me. Sigh. (It just may...ha! If you see a post titled 'Closed Up Shop: Expired From Typing', you'll be in the know)
* Exercise goals are met for the week. Yesterday I completed the entire core strength/abdominal workout in my Yoga class, holding the poses without breaking. Shaking arms were still present during a few poses, but I'm hanging with the big dogs! Okay...maybe it wasn't as pretty as Teigh and Gillian's. Pretty Shmitty. ;} One aspect of yoga that I've particularly enjoyed is Ugai breathing. Fire Breath is another favorite.
* Social goals met. (5 blogs/sites per day Mon-Thurs)
* Even with the busy schedule, I managed to cook up a new recipe! I'd forgotten how much satisfaction I gain from preparing and presenting food. Adding this goal was one of my better ideas...ha!
I sure hope you all had a knock up week. Happy Writing.
~ Nadja
Hey, Nadja! Good for you getting in the 30k. I'm hopeful I'll get the 5th book going in that direction. But I still had one annoying scene I had to write for #4--and finally it came to me!
ReplyDeleteWhat a thing to discover about your book! At least you were able to get that fixed! As for sales? Who knows why they dry up some months and explode others. Like a stock market thing, or the price of gas.
Have a great weekend, and hope you don't expire!
Fifth in a series? Wow! That's fantastic.
DeleteIt was lucky I happened upon that tagging mis-adventure! And yes...I suppose the flux in sales is a bit like the stock market or the price of gas. Funny.
I hope I don't expire either...lol. :}
Almost late for my writer's group this morning because I was trying to finish The Third Fate. Okay, I could go on and on about my feelings on paranormal lately, but your book hooked me good. Those creatures sound extremely feasible and RIGHT to me. LOVED IT!!! I don't know how you do it, but keep doing it! :)
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*blushes* Oh! Thank you for your kind words, Melanie. You've made my morning...er, a very late morning :} I slept in after a late night of movie watching...lol.
DeleteWow, so many things to keep track of. Good thing you caught the category shift!
ReplyDeleteAnd congratulations on the book club discussion!
Ref: How about finding out your book is up on a discussion board for a reading group??
ReplyDeleteThat is a WIN! Congrats.
PS Summer sales are always slow. Not to worry.
Thanks, Maria. I'm learning about the summer sales...this is my first 'summer-run'! lol.
DeleteThat's great news about the book club, solving the categorization problem, and the progress on your new WIP. Good luck with getting that WIP closer to the end and with the sales of The Third Fate now that you've updated the labels. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Lexa! It's great to meet you. I'm hoping to finish up my latest over this week. A big push as I'll have a few days without my boys and hubby! Here's to it! Ha.
DeleteOh I do hope that boosts your sales. It seems to me that the wrong tag can hugely affect your sales - if you're not showing up where readers can see you you're not going to sell - and if you're showing up in literary searches, well they wouldn't buy PR. Could be a fabulous result and teaches a lesson in double checking (mental note to remember this lesson). Good going on all your progress. Fabulous. Although the yoga video - scary. I do fear exercise in all its guises. X
ReplyDeletehttp://shahwharton.com/2012/07/shovelling-shit-from-a-sitting-position-row80-updater3-0807-amediting.html
...'I fear exercise in all its guises...'
DeleteToo funny, Shah! And I couldn't agree more. Lol. I feel fantastic afterward, but in truth, I loathe exercise. Finding workouts that suit my personality is a must.
Yes! Yes! And I'll say it again, Yes! Ahem. On the double checking...that is. Ha!
Wow, I like how you got to the bottom of what was going on with your book. :) Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are doing a splendid job... keep up the great work!
Sheer luck, I assure you. Lol. Thanks for the encouragement! I'll take every drop I can muster. :}
DeleteHow awesome to find your book is the pick for a book club, especially when it's been mis-tagged! Here's hoping the sales go up now that it's fixed. Good job on your goals too, and have a great week!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jennette! Have a great week, yourself. :}
DeleteCongrats on breaking the 30K mark and having your book picked by a book club! I wish a you another productive week and happy writing!
ReplyDeleteBook club pick? That is most amazingly awesome! I'm having squeeeee feelings on your behalf. LOL.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we have to watch those tags. Maybe I need to recheck the Libby Fox books for bad tags.... Hee hee.
been a good week and cooking as well - I do enjoy the whole process of cooking from buying the stuff to the eating:) well done on getting those tags corrected- keep on smiling:)
ReplyDeleteYou've had a great 1st week, well done.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of a cooking goal. I've only got 1 writing goal at the moment, but am planning to add more as we go along... you may have just inspired me...
Hope this week goes even better than last.
Hope the change in tagging does you good. I wish you the best with your current WIP and goals... Hopefully, they haven't killed you. ;)
ReplyDeleteThat is surreal. A debut author—Rachel Hartman—just got her book favorably reviewed by Tamora Pierce (YA fantasy writer). I just commented to her how surreal that would be and yet how pleasant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting the Yoga video. Very interesting!