Well. Here we are again. Once more, it’s been a reasonably productive week. I got a client edit done, the new version of Pledges of Honor uploaded with the new cover on ebook sites and going through the process at Ingram, started work on book two of The Cost of Power, prepared a report for a Soroptimist committee that I chair, and started edits on the new version of
I am sorry you are feeling so discouraged. What has worked for me is free first in series, even for my science fiction series when it was a trilogy, and then periodically spending between $75 to $150 using the relatively inexpensive email promotion sites, Fussy Librarian, FreeBooksy, Hello Books, etc. (and making sure my books are in the right categories.) This usually gets these free books up to best seller lists in these categories, which slowly builds up reviews, and sell through. My books are wide, but this also worked when in KU, using the 5 free book days. I have found 99 cents for the first in series just doesn't work very well with this strategy.
I am sorry you are feeling so discouraged. What has worked for me is free first in series, even for my science fiction series when it was a trilogy, and then periodically spending between $75 to $150 using the relatively inexpensive email promotion sites, Fussy Librarian, FreeBooksy, Hello Books, etc. (and making sure my books are in the right categories.) This usually gets these free books up to best seller lists in these categories, which slowly builds up reviews, and sell through. My books are wide, but this also worked when in KU, using the 5 free book days. I have found 99 cents for the first in series just doesn't work very well with this strategy.