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| A week and a half have passed and I emailed my book promoter. I asked how many sold in the first five days. I received an email that it wasn't too good. There were only 31 units (books) sold. 3 were kindle unlimited and the rest were ereaders. NOT GOOD? by whose standards? I think that is a good showing for the first few days. I have had requests for paperback books from my circle of friends who like signed books. What I've discovered is there is a buying of my first book in the secondary market. Unfortunately I don't get anything from those sales, but its nice to know that people are reading it. Bless their hearts. I wish they'd buy the republished one. I like the cover better. A few days after it was posted on Amazon, I read a review about Silent River. Here is an amazing review. Piaras 5.0 out of 5 starsA well-crafted psychological thriller. April 20, 2019 Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase Silent River by C.M. Weaver is a wonderfully written and richly descriptive novel, with brilliantly drawn characters driven by obsession and the need for justice. The author weaves a well-crafted psychological thriller with intriguing twists and turns that will captivate the reader from the first page to the last. Skillfully constructed, the story is a fictionalized version of a real investigation in the late 1950s in Portland, Oregon. The book description gives a sneak preview: ‘Robert Collins is Portland’s best investigative detective. When the Stevens family goes missing, he goes to work. As he uncovers clues the family may have been targeted for a professional hit by organized crime, it gets personal. …Can he face down his inner demons before he loses himself? He confronts the mob and police bureaucracy to find the missing family. Jake, partner and friend, thinks he's spiraling into obsession, when Robert's taken off the case but refuses to give up the investigation. …Can he get past this shameless tragedy and his own past to move on with his life?’ Now, if that’s not enough to get your curiosity juices flowing, I don’t know what will. But if you want to find out what happens, you’ll just have to turn the pages for yourself! However, I will say it was well worth the read. It’s my first time reading this author and I must say I was very impressed. The story had every element a good story should have. A solid plot, attention to detail, but best of all fleshed out, well-written and well-rounded character development. There’s an abundance of well-illustrated scenes that make you feel like you are right there in the story, and that’s something I really look for in a good book. I enjoyed the story, character development, and dialogue. There were plenty of plot twists that I didn’t see coming and that added to the book’s mystique. When I stopped reading to work, I found myself wondering what happened in the book, and replaying parts of the novel in my head to see if I could figure more out. It has been a while since I enjoyed a book this much. This was a fascinating and captivating read that had me immersed from the beginning. The story flowed from scene to scene with ease, and the author shows exceptional ability when it comes to storytelling. There are plenty of attention-grabbing moments in this page turner that will take the reader on a truly mesmerizing journey. Five stars I'm tickled pink to read this and if I didn't already know what the book was about, I'd read it myself. |
I have two books on Amazon The first is a republish, the second is a new publish. I republished Vanishing with iUniverse. I wanted to get it back on the market and they put it together for $900.00 A new cover and a little editing, but I had to do most of it. It was their basic package. Its been out a month and I got a call from a VERY high pressure salesperson to purchase a video package for (orig$4,000) but she could get it down to a mere $2,000. When I was hesitant she got very pushy telling me I didn't believe in the book or I'd jump on this opportunity to get a video made and have it put out to Hollywood producers and directors or anyone who chose projects. Did I know the movie Still Alice? That was one of their publications. I asked her to give me an average of the number of people who bought these packages and how many were made into movies? She didn't know. {eye-roll from me} Anyway I put the hammer down and said no. She got huffy and said I should spend $300 and buy the Press Release option. It would go out to 500 contacts to possibly order the book for their stores or promote on their websites, and request a free book for a review. I told her I'd just had my other book published and I got the same thing for free! She said so the answer is no and you're going to just let the book sit there and do nothing. I said "YEP." She signed off and went away. To be clear, she had no idea the book's history. She'd read the blurb and said she read a couple of pages and she would probably buy it for her own reading. (Liar) I have already published this book once and did quite well with it. It isn't a best seller yet, but for my first book I am pretty pleased with the response to the story. I've already sold 3 that I know about. SILENT RIVER by C.M. Weaver was hot yesterday (4/17) and the paperback will be available today or tomorrow I was told. italics Publishing is a tradition publisher of small press. I didn't pay anything, but I have a long term contract with them (7years) I'm new to all this. The fact that it's on Amazon and they are invested in promoting it is fine with me. I know I won't get a lot of money from it, but when you're a new published author you need to get a following and if that's what it takes, so be it. I have a nice size platform. It's a little heavy on experienced readers and some are of the conservative nature. I don't know if they'll read a crime novel, but it's okay, they'll love the next two books. For this reason I wrote this book under CM WEAVER. Now that I think about it I should have picked a different name so they aren't so close on the author listing. I found this publisher by just going through the internet listing for publishers and looking at any who looked like they might be open to submissions for crime and true crime novels. I already had 3 sales of people I knew who'd read the first book and one's in England. I was told by the publisher there had been 4 sales within the first hour or so. I hadn't even put it on my FB or TWITTER yet. |
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