December promos
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December Author Promotions
November all ebooks sale
For the next two weeks, all of my ebooks are now $2.99. Check out my online store and pick out a couple of them today!
All my ebooks $2.99 until August 3st!
For about the last year, I’ve been running periodic $2.99 sales on all my ebooks every two months or so. No special announcements or promotions, just a price drop from $4.99 for the novel-length books, down to $2.99 (this does not include my book bundles, which are all $9.99).
Interestingly, even with very little promotion, and the lower royalties due to the price decrease, I have found that my sales and revenue actually increase every time I run one of these sales. But the boost only lasts for about two weeks before falling back again, and I have to wait about two months before I can get a similar boost.
However, since I could do a better job promoting these things, I figured it’s worth promoting on my blog. From now until the end of August, all of my $4.99 ebooks are now $2.99 across all ebook retailers. You can pick them up wherever you get your ebooks, but if you get them from my online store, the files are yours to keep (none of this licensing vs. digital ownership nonsense). Check it out!
August group promotions
Check out these multi-author group promotions! I’ve got a few books and stories floating around in them, and a lot of other great SF&F indie authors do too.
New permafree first-in-series: Rescuer’s Reward
I have decided to make Rescuer’s Reward the permafree book for my Sea Mage Cycle fantasy series. If you haven’t yet read any of these books, this is a great place to start. It’s not the first book chronologically, but it is the first book that I published in the series, and since the Sea Mage Cycle is really just a series of interconnected standalones (kind of like most of Louis L’Amour’s westerns), you won’t miss anything by starting here.
Rescuer’s Reward
A captain in debt, a princess in peril, and a fate that neither can foresee.
All Jason ever wanted was to sail the Azure Sea as a merchant ship's captain. But money problems have him up to his eyeballs in debt, and if he doesn't return to port with the gold, his dreams will be dashed forever. So when the princess of a far-off kingdom is kidnapped by pirates en route to her wedding, Jason merrily takes up the chase, staking his future on the reward for her safe return.
Yet the competition for the princess proves fierce, and Jason soon learns that there are far more powerful forces behind her kidnapping than any of them realize. And though Princess Julietta has no qualms about marrying for political advantage, the last thing she wants is to be a mere trophy in a different sort of game.
As duty, desire, and destiny clash, only one thing is certain: they both must risk everything to earn the ultimate reward.
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Taking Bringing Stella Home off of Permafree
Bringing Stella Home
$14.99eBook: $2.99
When a ruthless Hameji battle fleet kidnaps his sister, James McCoy—a young merchant starfarer untested by war—vows to bring her home. But to save her, he must give up everything he has and become something he never thought he could be.
More info →I have a lot of free and permafree books. Most of them are short, though: short stories under 10k words, with one novelette between 10k and 20k words and one novella between 20k and 40k words. Until now, I had only one permafree full-length novel: Bringing Stella Home at just under 100k words.
(As a side note, it makes very little sense to me why 7,500 words should be the cutoff length for a short story. Why not 10k words? It doesn’t take that much longer to read a 10k word story than a 7.5k word story. And if the concern is being able to read it comfortably in a single sitting, or in a single podcast episode, then it makes more sense to make 5k words the cutoff. There is a huge difference in the reading experience between a 4k story and a 7k story, but a 7k story and a 10k story? Not so much. Same with the 15k word cutoff for novelettes; 20k words makes much more sense to me.)
It’s been about nine months since I made Bringing Stella Home one of my permafrees, and to make a long story short, I’ve found that it really doesn’t move the needle. Part of this may be due to the fact that all of the Gaia Nova books are technically standalones, with a few recurring characters. Bringing Stella Home doesn’t lead directly into another book (though Heart of the Nebula is a direct sequel).
But another reason, I suspect, is because when readers download a free book, they aren’t expecting to get a full-length novel. They’re expecting to get something short that they can read in a couple of sittings, without having to make a major time commitment. When they find that they’ve downloaded something that might take them ten hours or more to read, it puts them off, especially if it’s from an unknown author.
Since the whole reason for giving away free books is to introduce my books to new readers, if they aren’t actually reading those free books because they are too long, why should I keep giving them away for free? Better to give away a bunch of shorter books that readers will actually read.
So in the next couple of weeks, I’m going to revert Bringing Stella Home back to $4.99. At some point in 2023, perhaps in February or March, I will release a boxed set of the Gaia Nova novels and focus my promotional efforts on that, rather than trying to do the first-in-series free thing (which doesn’t actually work for this series, since there technically is no first book).
So if you haven’t already picked up the ebook edition of Bringing Stella Home, now is a good time to do that.
Author Group Promos for September
Book Funnel Giveaways
Story Origin Giveaways
Group Promotions for March
Smashwords end-of-year sale
If you like to buy your books on Smashwords, good news! All of my books that are usually 2.99 or higher are 50% off until the end of the year. Enjoy!