I'm not sure exactly what happened yesterday. I was doing my usual thing, posting to FB groups - 1 every fifteen minutes to avoid getting my paddies smacked by FB's gulag rules - when I noticed an uptick in downloads. I was all like 'whoa' because in a short time, I'd moved like 20 copies. Cool, thinks I.
But it didn't stop there. The numbers kept rising... throughout the rest of the day and night, as a matter of fact. I'd moved 12 copies on Monday. As of this morning, I've moved 463 copies of Dying Embers in 24 hours.
Of course, all of those are free, but it gives me hope that at least some of those people will read it and go on to order FG and EG. (One person already did order the other two books at full price, so I've got that going for me.) I also have hope that it has brought DE high enough up in the rankings that the KU people will see it and start reading the book, too. Every page read adds up there.
I'm just a little dumbfounded. I've had this happen a couple times before. TTW got a boost somehow and moved like 100 copies in one day. Still, I've never had a book move this much in this short a time since I paid ENT for an ad.
Anyway, it's pretty exciting. I'd share the magic with you, if I knew what the magic was. I know yesterday I tried something different and hit the specialized FB groups (thriller, suspense type groups) with ads. Maybe that was the cause of the initial jump and, once DE started to rise in the rankings, that took over. Maybe I have a fairy god-newsletter that advertises my books without me knowing or paying for it. Either way, it does feel good to see the numbers jump like that.
Doesn't change anything with regard to yesterday's post, but still...
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