Hello,
Well, well, well, what an eventful past week. As many of you will know, I did a five day free promotion on Amazon for my novel, This Thirtysomething Life. It was the first time I'd done it and typical me, I did no research and went into it like a ravenous American inside a KFC. However, and much to my complete surprise, it did marvelously well.
It did start slowly. On the first day I only had a few hundred downloads and so I assumed that would be it. However, day two it started to pick up and by day three I was flying. I sat all day and watched as the downloads kept going up. Every five minutes another twenty or thirty were going. It was incredible. By day five, I was closing in on 8000 downloads for the UK and 1000 for the US with a spattering across Europe. I was also at number 1 on the free charts for Literary Fiction and Humour and number 2 for overall free bestsellers. I was literally speechless - which is an uncommon state for me.
The best was still to come though. Although it had been a huge success, I was still yearning for that number 1 spot overall, but with only a few hours left I didn't think it possible. But then. Then it happened. I was number 1 on all the charts I was involved in. It was a Christmas miracle (in October).
The reason I'm blogging about this isn't to blow my own trumpet, it has been blown enough. No, the reason is because I wanted to thank everyone who helped me. President Obama was recently criticised by the mental right or the Republican party as they're otherwise known, for saying 'You didn't build that' when he was talking about small business. He was, of course, referring to the fact that no-one builds anything alone. We don't live in a bubble, but rely on others for their help. I may have written the book, but so many lovely, wonderful people have gone out of their way to help me promote it and so thank you all so much.
Since then I've been doing pretty well in sales, certainly much better than before the promotion. It's going well and I have my new book, HAPPY ENDINGS, coming out on 12.12.12 (nice, huh) and I hope that will get a bit of a bounce too.
I will blog again soon. I'm going to have a whole blog about HAPPY ENDINGS, and maybe a small excerpt - I'm far too nice to you.
Until then it's goodnight from me and goodnight from him (A Two Ronnies joke for the Americans and anyone under the age of twenty in the UK).
Cheers,
Jon X
