christwriter, I was just wondering what are your strategies for selling more books?
At this point, publish more books. Seriously. I've tried advertising and that didn't work, blog tours seem to be a lot of pomp and circumstance and not a lot of results for the efforts, and I can't find a reviewer willing to review (...at this point I'd be happy if my simi-hate-stalker did a review, though that would really hurt because this person
hates my guts). But that first month a book is out increases traffic for all other books. And so far it seems to be working. I did not release a book last month, numbers were down, I released a book this month, my numbers were well over double what they were last month.
KDP Select give-aways help, a little, but in all honesty at this point the best advertisement is a brand new book.
This summer, for example, I plan to release one book next month, two books in June, including one I've been promising since Feb. that I had to skip because
I was very tired, a book, an omnibus of one series and a print book in July, and a book, an omnibus of the other series and another print book in August. I *should* be able to manage all that because I've got 90% of it written.
I'm going to regroup at the end of the summer and reassess. For now, I'm satisfied with growth and momentum. Right now I want to break 50 books a month by June, which I don't think is unreasonable, 75 books a month by September, and 100 a month by December. If I can't do that, I'll sit back and regroup.