The review appears on her regular Friday feature 'Celebrating Indie Publishing'.
You'll find the full review here: Celebrating Indie Publishing with @DeborahMiles7
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Showing posts with label My_Books. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 August 2018
Book Blogger review by The Quiet Knitter
Another blogger, The Quiet Knitter, has responded to my request to review Orchard View with a 4 star review.
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Review by Karen at Go Buy The Book
As such, I have emailed several book bloggers who review books in the crime genre, in the hope of getting an honest and independent review for my novel.
Today, I want to say a big thank you Karen who blogs at Go Buy The Book for taking the time to read and write such a lovely review for 'Orchard View'.
Saturday, 30 December 2017
The last few days of 2017
As always, it's been a busy time of year at home, getting ready for, and now clearing up after Christmas; leaving little time to research, write or even update my social media.
I gave each of my daughters a paperback copy of 'Orchard View' for Christmas. I don't know if the eldest has had time to look at her copy. She went home on Boxing Day and had to go to work the next day, so it may be some time before she gets a chance to look at it. The youngest is just over halfway through - just getting to know George Bateman - while the middle one stayed up all Boxing Day night to finish her copy.
They have both spoken to me independently about the story and both agreed that they wanted to know what happened to the Alders after they left Orchard View. They were sad when their story came to an end, and hoped that later in the book there would be and update on how they were doing in their new life.
I found it interesting that both were so heavily invested in Mae and Philip, as originally, I had planned a completely different ending for them. However, whilst writing their story, I became very protective of them and wanted to give them a happy ending, so I created another character for the unhappy ending.
You may have seen that I have been taking part in Melanie Thurlow's #WIPTruthorDare game. It has been very useful for 'filling out' the characters in my next story. It's amazing how a simple idea, query or suggestion can ignite the imagination and produce something creative and entertaining. I will play this game again at some point.
The #DecTheShelves challenge resulted in 25 purchases of books by indie authors. The next challenge will be to find the time to read them all before next December!
And finally with only two days left of this year ... it is time to think about my goals for next year...
I gave each of my daughters a paperback copy of 'Orchard View' for Christmas. I don't know if the eldest has had time to look at her copy. She went home on Boxing Day and had to go to work the next day, so it may be some time before she gets a chance to look at it. The youngest is just over halfway through - just getting to know George Bateman - while the middle one stayed up all Boxing Day night to finish her copy.
They have both spoken to me independently about the story and both agreed that they wanted to know what happened to the Alders after they left Orchard View. They were sad when their story came to an end, and hoped that later in the book there would be and update on how they were doing in their new life.
I found it interesting that both were so heavily invested in Mae and Philip, as originally, I had planned a completely different ending for them. However, whilst writing their story, I became very protective of them and wanted to give them a happy ending, so I created another character for the unhappy ending.
You may have seen that I have been taking part in Melanie Thurlow's #WIPTruthorDare game. It has been very useful for 'filling out' the characters in my next story. It's amazing how a simple idea, query or suggestion can ignite the imagination and produce something creative and entertaining. I will play this game again at some point.
The #DecTheShelves challenge resulted in 25 purchases of books by indie authors. The next challenge will be to find the time to read them all before next December!
And finally with only two days left of this year ... it is time to think about my goals for next year...
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Get a free Kindle edition of Orchard View
As we are in the season of giving,
between 19th and 21st December,
you will be able to download your own copy of Orchard View completely free from Amazon.co.uk.
Don't miss out... and don't forget to tell your friends!
Thursday, 16 November 2017
KDP Reports
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) reports make interesting reading.
The first report lists the number of e-books sold along with the date they were downloaded. From this I can determine whether a promotion has generated sales or not, and see if sales increased around the time of a particular tweet, Facebook or blog post.
The second report is labelled 'Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) Read from KU and KOLL'. It appears because the e-book is available to download through Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners Lending Library. E-book royalties are payable for each page read, at the time they are read, but only on the first time of reading. This is an interesting report as it shows how many pages have been read and the days on which they were read.
Beneath this is a table showing royalties earned, and under this is a link to download the full report. As expected, the report details all the above information. More interestingly, there is a tab labelled 'KENP Read' which breaks down how many pages were read on each day, and in which country! It was only when I clicked on this tab that I discovered Orchard View is being read by a reader in Spain.
Does that make me an international author?
The first report lists the number of e-books sold along with the date they were downloaded. From this I can determine whether a promotion has generated sales or not, and see if sales increased around the time of a particular tweet, Facebook or blog post.
The second report is labelled 'Kindle Edition Normalized Pages (KENP) Read from KU and KOLL'. It appears because the e-book is available to download through Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners Lending Library. E-book royalties are payable for each page read, at the time they are read, but only on the first time of reading. This is an interesting report as it shows how many pages have been read and the days on which they were read.
Beneath this is a table showing royalties earned, and under this is a link to download the full report. As expected, the report details all the above information. More interestingly, there is a tab labelled 'KENP Read' which breaks down how many pages were read on each day, and in which country! It was only when I clicked on this tab that I discovered Orchard View is being read by a reader in Spain.
Does that make me an international author?
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Marketing update
I allowed my book to be made available through bookstores and online retailers to reach the widest possible audience. I noticed the other day that Barnes and Noble are offering it for sale in the US at the same price as Amazon.com and that a number of resellers have picked it up and are offering it at varying prices. Interesting...
Today I Googled "Orchard View Deborah Miles" and was pleased to see that top of the search engine results page was my book on the Goodreads.com website. Further down the list was my last Google Plus entry, my Twitter feed, and the final entry on this results page was the link to buy the book on Amazon.co.uk.
Out of curiosity I looked at page 2 of the results and was rather surprised. There was an entry in Japanese, linking to https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp where they are advertising my large print book at US$14.50. I know it is available in Australia and Europe through the relevant Amazon site but I was not expecting that! I will have to have another look next month to see where else in the world it is being sold.
Today I Googled "Orchard View Deborah Miles" and was pleased to see that top of the search engine results page was my book on the Goodreads.com website. Further down the list was my last Google Plus entry, my Twitter feed, and the final entry on this results page was the link to buy the book on Amazon.co.uk.
Out of curiosity I looked at page 2 of the results and was rather surprised. There was an entry in Japanese, linking to https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp where they are advertising my large print book at US$14.50. I know it is available in Australia and Europe through the relevant Amazon site but I was not expecting that! I will have to have another look next month to see where else in the world it is being sold.
Monday, 18 September 2017
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