I thought I’d share this big milestone, as I’ve posted previously over the year about my progress with new marketing strategies for my Werecat series. You can find my first post from last summer here, and another update from last September here. I recently received my royalty statement from the second half of 2017, and the big update is that The Rearing (Werecat #1) has now been downloaded 10,000 times at e-retailers!
It’s true the great bulk of those occurred after the e-book went permafree in late June 2017, and that the great bulk of the downloads were at Amazon, where my publisher has spent the most time tweaking tags and advertising. That title soared to #1 in its category at the Kindle store (“gay fiction”) pretty soon after it went free, and it hovered in the top ten through most of 2017. More recently, downloads have slowed down a bit, but it has stayed between #20-40, with occasional spikes, so that’s been nice to see.
There’s definitely been an increase in buy-throughs with the series as books 2-4 have been getting more sales compared to the previous year. A lot of the time, I see a jump in the sales ranking of all three books, which is an indication that people are buying the series all together. So in my opinion, bundling works.
Another thing I’ve gone after is reviews, and for sure there’s been some progress there. The Rearing had all of nine reviews at Amazon before it went permafree in June 2017, and now it’s up to twenty-three. The uptick is even more dramatic at Goodreads, where it started at twenty-one ratings/reviews and now is at seventy-four. The other titles have gotten reader reviews here and there, though it hasn’t been as brisk as I would have liked to have seen.
The series has gotten some nice industry reviews, and I’ll share a few recent ones:
From Underground Book Reviews – Werecat: The Trilogy
From Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words – The Sim Ru Prophecy (Werecat #4)
I’m hoping to keep the momentum up and surely do appreciate your help! If you read the books, you can share your rating and review. Anywhere you talk about books is helpful. Amazon is probably the best place from my perspective, and Goodreads is great too. 🙂
Of course, if you haven’t had a chance to dig into the series, buying copies is wonderfully grand. I’ll share the links right here. With the Trilogy, you get books 1-3 together, and of course you can buy them separately if you wish.
Last, something really easy-peasy you can do that helps a lot to raise the profile and spread the word is like or follow me on social media:
Many thanks! xo
