Thread: Well, I went and did it..

Tired of form letter rejections, I went to amazon and published an ebook, "Vengeance is Mine." It said it uploaded correctly but will take up to 24 hours to show. In the forums, a question was asked, "What do you call a good sales month?" One guy said, "15,000 books"

I think he was lying, the original guy came back saying that 200 was his goal. They pay 70% royalties and the publishing is free.

Over the next five to ten years enough people are going to do what you did and the traditional publishers will be stuck with thousands of unused form rejection letters with no one to send them to.

Congratulations, Ditch. Hope you sell a million.

Happy day Ditch! hope you become a best seller and then you can rub it in the editors faces!

Definitely the wave of the future. No printing costs, no rejection letters, just money straight to your pocket. Though I hate it with a passion, I strongly suggest using Facebook, Ditch. You can set up a page for Vengeance is Mine and link it to your own Facebook account, if you have one. Then post an announcement to your Wall. That way, all of your friends (and their friends and so on) will see your page. Instant marketing.

WTG, Ditch! This is where you put the title of the book into your signature, linked to your Amazon listing. In order to sell, you have to get the word out so start hoofin'.

Also, as mentioned in the newsletter, we're planning to open a WF Member Bookstore (hopefully named something much cooler than that) so that should help, too.

Best of luck!

Congrats! I hope you sell that 15,000 books.

If you are interested here is a list of 200 Guerrilla Marketing Weapons. A large percentage of them are free. You should do at least 7 or 8. In the classes that I've taken on marketing they say it takes 7 touches, seven times of someone hearing about or viewing your product, before they will purchase. So attacking your marketing from several different routes is a great idea.

I could go on and on but if you'd like for me to copy some of the marketing material from my classes I'd be happy to email it to you.

Great thought, Kat. As it happens I'm finally reading Guerrilla Marketing. Shouldn't have taken so long.

Good luck, Ditch!

mmm, I don't know a lot about publishing. but i guess self publishing can get your name out their, if it not all ready out their?

I wish you luck and all so some Congratulations things and what not.

Thanks everybody, I'll go back and look at the marketing after typing this. It takes 24 hours so the book still isn't showing. I have the sequel finished and one where I jumped forward 480 years following the descendants of the original family into the present day. I know a couple way down in the Yucatan John and Debra. John was a paramedic on a helicopter and Debra was an E.R. nurse. They retired and opened a dive shop in Paamul. I asked John for permission to use them in the book and he gladly consented. Every morning I would forward the new chapters to them. Debra is a voracious reader and new books are hard to come by down there so she uses a Kindle and downloads hers. As one poster said here, there was a 200% increase in ebooks last year and they are now outselling paper books. It is the future.

Originally Posted by Sam W

Then post an announcement to your Wall. That way, all of your friends (and their friends and so on) will see your page. Instant marketing.

But doesn't that rather depend on all those squarks making an electronic connection in the first place? How can anyone claim as a friend some electronic entity keying a few strokes and clicking a button?

Well it's up for sale, here's a link.. Amazon.com: Vengeance is Mine (A Pirate's Tale) eBook: Felipe Fernandez: Books

Good start, Ditch! Looks like it could use a cover image. Is there a setting or anything that allows someone to read the first few pages like there is with the print books? I'm only just getting familiarized with ebooks myself.

Congratulations, Ditch!

All the very best to you, lets hope you'll soon be nominated for an E-Booker!
And if there ain't one yet, there soon will be!
Also love Garza's comments - what goes around comes around!