The March 2014 report:
The good news: My book sales increased 50%.
The bad news: They went from 2 to 3. That's even with being more aggressive with promoting paperbacks to people I encounter. I got one sale from that. And that's even with being in the midst of a FB ad campaign (thank you, FB, for the $50 coupon). I may have had one sale from that campaign. Here's the graph. And to see a full size version you can go to this post at my blog and click through to the larger image:
http://davidatodd.com/2014/04/01/book-sales-in-march-2014/.
In other news in March, I added one title to my published works. I did this as a result of suggestions made on this site by Old Hack in different threads, that to gain experience with the self-publishing process, especially with formatting, to re-publish a public domain book. While I've gained some experience with this through my previous 13 books, including five paperbacks, I figured doing this as suggested couldn't hurt.
For my public domain work I decided to gather the 21 articles that Thomas Carlyle wrote or translated for the
Edinburgh Encyclopedia in the early 1820s. Sixteen of these had been gathered and republished in 1897, but the other five, which is actually more than 50 percent of all his contribution, had never been republished, at least not as far as I can tell. So this is previously published material, but never before pulled together and published in this manner. It's only going to be at Amazon (because Smashwords doesn't allow public domain books), and here's the link to the e-book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JCJ9WMW/?tag=absowrit-20
The print version will take a little longer. The interior formatting is finished, but I'm determined to make my own print cover. That means learning new skills. With luck I'll have it done in a week, though it may require two. Thanks, Old Hack, for the suggestion. I learned quite a bit about editing books such as this, and learned some new formatting skills for both e-books and print books.
So, now it's on to finish my next novel and publish it, and to publish a short story that's been rejected. Onward.