Can you spare a minute of your time?
If
Mark's and my informative (I hope) blog posts have banked any social
capital, I'd like to cash it today. I'm going to ask you each for a
favor that will cost you nothing except one minute of your time, but
it's very important to me, so let me explain why first.
Despite glowing reviews, Watermelon Summer's launch
has been much slower than that of my other ebooks. I realized
after the fact that my goal of reaching into a new genre to introduce
mainstream readers to homesteading is a tougher sell than I'd at first
thought because my core readers are non-mainstream enough that they
don't really want to read a mainstream book. Luckily, you can help
me reach those mainstream readers today by following this link and "buying" a free copy of my book.
How will that help?
I use free periods to get my books into the public eye, which creates a
buzz and then generally sucks in actual purchases once the free period
is over. The trouble is that it's easier to get into the top 100
(where strangers start to see my book) in non-fiction categories than in
fiction. To get into the top 100 free in the young-adult
category, I need to give away about 2,500 copies, which is quite
feasible --- Trailersteading
has actually soared as high as being in the top 100 free on all of
Amazon in the past, which meant I gave away many thousands of copies
that day. But it takes a concerted effort to get there.
Will you help Watermelon Summer
reach out beyond the choir? Buying a free copy is plenty of help,
but if you want to go further, you can share this post on facebook (or
on the social-networking site of your choice) or on your blog.
Maybe you could even tell a friend who enjoys young-adult books? I
estimate that if each person who sees this post simply bought a free
copy, my book would soar to the top of its category overnight.
Thanks in advance for your help!
As a side note, I've started posting a monthly sum-up of my favorite indie Amazon ebooks over on my book blog,
and several of those ebooks are free right now as well. Stay
tuned to that blog for more top picks in the months to come.
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I have been an avid reader of your blog and ebooks for over a year. I grew up in Northern Minnesota and now live in Minneapolis (Where the windchill was -48 degrees this week!), and your blog gives me a chance to live vicariously through your adventures. Thank you for sharing all of the tips and knowledge that you have about Homesteading and Simple Living. When my partner and I are ready to get off the grid, I will use all of the information you have shared.
I "bought" a copy of Watermelon Summer today. Hope if helps your ratings. I am a writer, too, and I am glad to lend you my support.
Stay warm!
I would love to help you Anna but I do not use Kindle....sorry
Maybe a free paperback????
Edith
Thanks for everyone who's helped me move up in rankings! We're getting very close now at 2 pm....
Edith --- Free ebooks are a lot easier to give away than paperbacks --- it would break the bank to give out 291 paperbacks (which is how many people have so far downloaded the free ebook). But you don't have to have a kindle to read Amazon ebooks. You don't need to do anything at all if you just want to support me --- click the buy button and don't worry about how to read it. But if you do want to read, they give you the option of reading in Amazon's cloud reader after purchase, which is right in your webpage.
Okay....I didn't know that.
If I click buy....can you send me a PDF????? :o) I wouldn't want to use cloud either..
I'll go buy now..
Edith