I promised to let you all know how the release of The Outsider went, and enough time has passed now for the dust to have settled, so it’s time to fulfill that promise.
Since the release of The Outsider until the end of Feb 2019, I’ve sold 66 copies and grossed $220.
I have to be careful or these posts come off as complaining rather than just sharing information, but to me a post like this begs for some level of analysis.
Obviously, A Broken World hasn’t been as popular as the Reflections series, but I saw similar problems with the last few releases in the Reflections universe, just on a different scale.
Given that the other books in the series have sold at least 10 times as many copies as The Outsider has, I have to believe that my biggest problem with the release of The Outsider was people who know and love the series not finding out that there was another entry in the series.
The initial hope so many years ago was that my mailing list would help side-step that problem, but I think that the various email providers have continued to get more and more aggressive about filtering stuff out of peoples’ main inbox as the email spammers have continued to get more aggressive.
It’s possible that I can still find a way to get through to the readers who would purchase the book if they knew about it. That will be my next focus so that I can get to the point where the release of a book is back to at least paying for my editing costs.
I loved the Reflections Series and Dark Reflections. I may have to go back and reread them as my memory doesn’t serve me well since two accidents. Did this series end or are you still adding to it? I started off with being introduced to your series as a “freebie”, and couldn’t wait to go on to the next book! You are such a wonderful storyteller; I look forward to reading more of your books!
Hi, Linda.
I’m so glad that you’ve enjoyed the Reflections and Dark Reflections books so far. I very much plan on finishing the series at some point in the future, but a series of life challenges, and a drastic uptick in piracy of my titles has necessitated that I push finishing the series off to a later date than I’d anticipated. I’ve had to hunt for jobs twice in the last 6 months, but once things have stabilized and I’m in a better place where it comes to being able to provide for my family, I hope to be able to get back to doing some editing and writing so that I can finish the three series that I haven’t been able to close out yet.
–Dean