Faerie Blood and Valor of the Healer sale update

[annathepiper]

And now, for some amusing numbers!

I released the current, second edition of Faerie Blood into the wild in June of 2012. Up through May of 2014, I had a total of 335 sales over all for the book. My previous best sales month had been July 2012, pretty much right after I released the book, and January 2013, when I ran a $2.99 sale that got some signalboosting from fellow Carina authors.

Kicking the price down to 99 cents, though, has meant that in June and July of this year so far, I have had a total of 167 sales. A few of those were in early June, before I launched the sale. So it’s more like 160 sales as a direct result of the current low price.

June 2014 is my new record sales month, on the strength of the initial spike once I kicked the price on Faerie Blood down. June scored 97 sales. We’re now eight days into July, and July is well and thoroughly in second place but coming up steadily, with the current tally at 70 sales. At my current rough rate of sales (I’m seeing 2-4 a day coming in right now, mostly from Amazon), it’s reasonable to expect July may pass June.

Overall this means that roughly 33 percent of my current sales numbers are from this sale alone. NEAT.

And if I can get another 160 sales or so before the end of the month, I will DOUBLE the lifetime sales total for the book. If you want to help me make that happen, remember, signalboost! Signalboost! Signalboost!

Amazon sales are certainly welcome but I encourage signalboosting in particular to everywhere else I’m selling the book as well. B&N has clocked in so far with a total of 19 sales, iBooks has 3, Kobo has 5, and Google Play has 8. Smashwords so far is the only place where I’m selling Faerie Blood that hasn’t yet joined this party.

(I would be PARTICULARLY happy if more Kobo sales showed up. Because one, I love that Kobo has partnered up with indie booksellers. Two, they are a Force in Canada and I do love me some Canada. And three, they recently implemented a shopping cart on their site. The lack of a shopping cart on major ebook-selling sites has driven me spare for ages, and now that Kobo finally went and built one, I would love to see people filling it up. Ideally, with my stuff! But with other stuff as well. Reward them for their coding efforts!)

MEANWHILE: I’ve seen only a few confirmed sales of Valor of the Healer showing up as a result of the sale–but as I’ve previously mentioned, those numbers are much harder for me to track. The first wave of any really interesting numbers should be showing up for me by the end of this week! Still, though, the Valor sale needs your love as much as the Faerie Blood one! MORE, even, because it’s not lasting as long! Only 9 days left before Valor returns to its previous price!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Comments

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Well, in spite of the links I followed suggesting it was available on the Australian iBooks market, it isn't. (Valor)

[annathepiper]

DAMMIT. Apparently iTunes Australia has Vengeance, but NOT Valor, which makes no sense to me. ITunes AU has the Valor audiobook, but not the actual ebook. :(

And unfortunately this is out of my immediate control. I know who to ask at Carina about it but I don't know if they will be able to redeploy the book in time for you to get the sale price.

Meanwhile is it possible for you to buy the book directly off the Carina website? I've heard reports that CarinaPress.com may have issues with UK-based payment methods but I don't know if we have any problems with AU ones.

We sell DRM free though so if you can buy directly off the site you should be able to manually add the book to your iTunes/iBooks library. Meanwhile I'll ask why Valor isn't on iTunes AU. Thanks for letting me know!

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I got as far as getting a Carina Press login, discovered they only did Credit Card stuff, (which I have), but I wasn't sure if it would match given that the address got kind of munged when I put it in. The option for 'State' got taken away when I put Australia, but the CC address it thinks its comparing mine to thinks I'm in AL (the default USA state). I'm too tired at the moment (late night here) to start putting CC details into sites. If I remember later I might see if I dig out said CC (usually for online stuff I've been using paypal which isn't apparently an option)

[annathepiper]

So noted and thank you for checking! I've sent email to the appropriate contact persons to see if we can get Valor deployed to iTunes, and have emphasized that a) you're in Australia and the Carina site is wonky for overseas payment methods, b) I'd like you to be able to take advantage of the sale price, and c) I'd like you to be able to use your preferred purchase channel. Hopefully I can get some fast action on this! I'm sorry for the inconvenience. :(

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I tried briefly looking at amazon but probably because I'm in Australia it was quoting me I think $2.89. I have Noticed This about various online stores that sometimes the Australian price for things that cost no extra to ship electronically cost about $2 extra

[annathepiper]

Well, that's irritating. :(

I have been told by the Carina staff in charge of deploying books out to third-party retailers that they've pinged our Australian offices to see what the iTunes issue is and how fast they can fix it. They'll let me know as soon as they hear anything. I've thanked them for a fast reply and am now standing by for updates! I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything.

[annathepiper]

Hey there, followup to this, finally.

The good news is that Valor of the Healer has been actually deployed to the iTunes Australia store now.

The bad news is that I've been informed that Australian channels aren't participating in the sale and that they usually run their own promotions. :(

The hopefully still okay news is that I'm also told that there shouldn't be any territorial restrictions on buying directly from the Carina site, assuming that you haven't bought it already from another channel, so that you can take advantage of the sale price before the end of this week if you're still willing to try that. If the site doesn't take your data, I'm told by our senior editor that that'll be a technical problem, not a territory problem, and that our customer service people should be able to help you.

Apologies again for the inconvenience!