Loading ...As of last night I’d jumped up to #6 on Fictionwise’s Fantasy list–but as of tonight? #5, baby! Now I’m in the box at the top of the page!
I am desperately, desperately curious about how many copies this means I’ve actually sold. I mean, let’s be realistic here–I’m an SF/F author and I’m selling in ebook form to boot, so my expectations here are not high. I’ll be stunned and pleased if overall I sell enough copies of this book to get that loverly, loverly Cargo guitar I’m swooning for (which, by the rough math, would require me to sell about 500 copies). For all I know, this ranking on Fictionwise’s list may mean I’ve sold 20 copies in the last twenty days and everybody below me is spread out all the way down to zip. *^_^*;;
I won’t know for sure probably until I get the pertinent royalty statement. Which may not be the first one; I don’t know what span of time that will cover. It may be royalty statement #2!
Till then, though, I’ll indulge myself with the egoboo. And again, anybody out there reading this who’s actually bought the book off of Fictionwise, thank you very much!
Climbing Fast
August 20, 2009 at 1:31 am
Are you selling on any sites besides FW? My publisher is able to get our books on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble (which apparently only takes some feeds from FW), MobiPocket, a lot of sites that take feeds from these sites, and a couple other small standalone eBook sales sites. We’re still working to get into the Sony eBook store. I mention this because eBook sales should not live by FW alone, and as I understand it, if you can get onto FW then getting on to the other sites have about the same requirements — but different audiences.
Congrats on the high FW ranking. My highest so far was #3 of my publisher’s 200+ titles. It lasted for a couple of days.
–DBS
August 20, 2009 at 1:34 am
Update: I see that you are on Amazon. I hadn’t seen it before because rather than reading your blog in the normal fashion I’ve been dropping in on it through a Google blog alert for ‘fictionwise’, meaning I was only seeing your posts that mentioned them.
Very good!
–DBS
August 20, 2009 at 7:03 am
I am indeed on Amazon, and I’m on Mobipocket as well. My book came out over Memorial Day weekend and Mobipocket was the first big vendor to pick it up.
Drollerie sells books directly on its own site of course, but yeah, we have a presence on those places too, and on Fictionwise. Now that Barnes and Noble has an ebook store we’re there, too. (My specific book isn’t yet, but it’s coming.) What few books Drollerie has in print (about half a dozen right now) are also available to be ordered off of Amazon, B&N, and Powells.
However you came by, hail and well met, I appreciate hearing from other authors with ebook experience!
August 22, 2009 at 9:28 pm
If you wonder how I came across your site, I have Google News Alert and Blog Alert set on “Fictionwise”. I was curious about the experiences other authors were having with them after reading Piers Anthony’s HiPiers report. His site is a wonderful resource about experiences authors have had with various publishers and I decided to see what else was being said. Each time you mention Fictionwise in your blog it shows up in my daily digest of FW postings. I looked in to see what you were saying and have rather hung around since. You and I probably started selling at just about the same time (I finally found a publisher whose kinks rather matched my own after several years of trying :^) and we’re both going through this morass together.
August 24, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Yeah, I’m learning how to use Google Alerts myself. I expect I’ll be getting more complex with it if I sell anything else, but for now, I’m happy with it flinging me a small alert every so often.
All of us aspiring writers are indeed in this together. Good luck with your efforts and I certainly don’t mind regular visitors.
August 21, 2009 at 12:05 am
Now number 3! Ooooooooo!