I had an odd experience unfold over the last few weeks that has left me both irritated and thankful at the same time. So what happened?
Well, I got an email from a book company that does basic book screening for their subscribers. You sign up for their service and they recommend books that might appeal to you. They selected Marysvale for some free promotion and asked me to consider advertising with them if I had a good experience. Cool right? I thought so.
I’m reliant on things like this happening. Marysvale grew to number one on Kindle in Action and Adventure for two weeks. Simultaneously it went to number one in romance, and number two overall. I’ve had over 130,000 copies downloaded. It wasn’t anything that I did, because I don’t even know how to market my work. Believe me, I wish I did. That growth happened because of people like you. If you are one of those who have shared Marysvale, I’m very grateful and thank you profusely!!!
Why am I irritated then? I’ve bought advertising before without seeing much of an improvement. So, I watched my download stats over the following weeks to see how things went. Sure enough, things improved. Okay, I’m convinced. I’ll buy some advertising. I contact the company and received a prompt reply informing me that my books are not a good fit for their readers. Huh??
And now you can see where my irritation begins. How can my work be rejected when they came soliciting me? Am I missing something? So, I politely wrote them back, informing them of this oddity and asked if they wanted to reconsider. They didn’t. I’m left scratching my head, while feeling both thankful they advertised my work for free and irritated they rejected advertising my work. Somewhere, somehow, this makes sense to someone. What’s a lowly writer to do? I guess just chalk it up as another experience in this thing called writing and move along.
I think for my next post I’ll write on rejection and how to deal with it. Something all writers and producers of any product will experience. See you then.
Well, I got an email from a book company that does basic book screening for their subscribers. You sign up for their service and they recommend books that might appeal to you. They selected Marysvale for some free promotion and asked me to consider advertising with them if I had a good experience. Cool right? I thought so.
I’m reliant on things like this happening. Marysvale grew to number one on Kindle in Action and Adventure for two weeks. Simultaneously it went to number one in romance, and number two overall. I’ve had over 130,000 copies downloaded. It wasn’t anything that I did, because I don’t even know how to market my work. Believe me, I wish I did. That growth happened because of people like you. If you are one of those who have shared Marysvale, I’m very grateful and thank you profusely!!!
Why am I irritated then? I’ve bought advertising before without seeing much of an improvement. So, I watched my download stats over the following weeks to see how things went. Sure enough, things improved. Okay, I’m convinced. I’ll buy some advertising. I contact the company and received a prompt reply informing me that my books are not a good fit for their readers. Huh??
And now you can see where my irritation begins. How can my work be rejected when they came soliciting me? Am I missing something? So, I politely wrote them back, informing them of this oddity and asked if they wanted to reconsider. They didn’t. I’m left scratching my head, while feeling both thankful they advertised my work for free and irritated they rejected advertising my work. Somewhere, somehow, this makes sense to someone. What’s a lowly writer to do? I guess just chalk it up as another experience in this thing called writing and move along.
I think for my next post I’ll write on rejection and how to deal with it. Something all writers and producers of any product will experience. See you then.
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