This weekend I did a freebie giveaway using the KDP select program for Twilight Tales. It went amazing!
It is still free for a few more hours but I thought I’d give a run down of how it went.
I tried KDP a shortly after I started to publish. I had several books up at the time, but very few reviews, and only managed to get 200 downloads for the entire weekend. No reviews. No extra sales that I know of.
This time I managed to use Author Marketing Club to my advantage
and posted Twilight Tales to every freebie site I could. Well, I at least submitted it. I know at least one of them actually ran it, no idea if others did. Most of them do not tell you whether or not they run your book. I had to go snoop in order to find the one that did. I do not think anyone ran an advert for my book the first time.
This time I gave away more than 1000 books.
The results of all the give always: ranking #1 in two categories. I managed a screen capture of the two. In the third category it ranked as high as #2, but I did not manage to get a screen shot of that.
Only time will tell if this gives me any actual sales to books, or reviews. Right now all I got was a little visibility in a couple sub genre charts. The nicest one I saw was #10 on the Horror page. Very visible for anyone looking for Horror. Did it make a difference? Not sure yet, but I will definitely let you know in a few weeks.
Also, if you’d like to get Twilight Tales it is still free until midnight.
Congrats, Crissy! That’s awesome.
Thanks, Simon. Let’s hope it does something nice for my other books.