Hey, everybody. I've got a lot of credits to spare. If you'd like your book funded or purchased, I'm willing to trade orders. Leave a comment in reply to this update, if you'd like to swap.
Hey, everybody. I've got a lot of credits to spare. If you'd like your book funded or purchased, I'm willing to trade orders. Leave a comment in reply to this update, if you'd like to swap.
Hey everyone!
Thank you everyone for the amazing support you have shown to me and Dangerous Beauty! You guys are truly awesome and I can't thank you enough for the encouragement! While Dangerous Beauty did not meet it's goal to be published, I want you all to know that doesn't mean I've given up on getting it published. I'm working on putting together a website and building a new campaign. I will keep you all updated as I get things finished! Thank you again for the support! I hope you'll keep watching for updates. While you're watching, check out what is written already for Dangerous Beauty. I love hearing feedback!
Friday weekly update.
Merry Christmas and / or Happy Holidays!
This was a Big week for my project. The Barnes & Noble appearance went exceedingly well! Because I already hit up my friends and relatives (and their friends and relatives) during the pre-order campaign, I had to rely mostly on my ability to convince total strangers who wandered by my table that the book was worth their time and 20 bucks.
With a target rich environment and a week before Christmas crowd, I hit the sweet spot! Sold 80 copies of my hardcover. Store managers told me that it was the best-selling author appearance of the year and among the best over many years. (Obviously J.K. Rowling and Stephen King etc. don't visit the Salem, NH venue) But another writer attached to a bigger publisher was in the store at the same time and sold 12 copies.
My passion and belief in my project was contagious and my conversion rate with the customers was unreal - around 70% of the people who talked to me ended up buying the book.
The store manager and I hit it off very well and she gave me carte blanche permission to return for follow up appearances Any Time I want to. How crazy is that! I will now use this connection and recommendation to approach other B&N outlets within driving distance. Hoping to spend many upcoming Saturdays doing this and growing my outreach. I won't see the same size crowds or sell anywhere near as many books during these other store visits, but I'll walk away with them (hopefully) keeping a few copies in stock at each new location that I visit.
In other news, I did an interview with Fox-News Radio in Fort Myers Florida. My publicist tells me that they will be able to book many more radio interviews as we approach and are into the presidential primaries. The ability to get these interviews is mostly due to my Donald Trump connection, which is told as one of the "method-written" fictionalized stories in my book. (If you've read it, you know what I'm talking about! If you haven't read it yet, try to squeeze it into your schedule:-)
What I want for Christmas is REVIEWS on Amazon, click Here, and Goodreads click Here! (Thank you so much Dave Barrett!) Check out Dave's awesome Inkshares project! It's All Fun and Games click Here
https://www.inkshares.com/projects/it-s-all-fun-and-games
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Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RichFSaunders and Twitter @RFSaunders
Post links to http://www.secretagentman.org/ along with a short comment.
Friend me and follow me, if you haven't already.
As always; Thanks a Million for your awesome support!
I'll keep you updated as we continue this exciting Journey!
Happy Holidays guys!!
I've got a bunch of credits about to expire; reach out if you want me to support out your project or swap orders! Email me at jliggan.com or Twitter @lamplitug
As always, a huge thanks to everyone supporting The Talkers are Talking! Funding ends mid January so I don't think we'll make the full funding option, but Talkers will be published with Quill and that is entirely due to all of you. Thank you thank you!
Love,
Janna
Dear Friends
My editor Penny-Lane and I want to wish you all a Happy Holidays.
Thank you for your support, for your words of encouragement, and for making 2015 one of the best years of my life.
This year I did two big things: I ran the New York City Marathon, and I wrote a novel. It would be easy to pat my back and congratulate myself for such achievements, but the truth is that the blood, sweat and tears that took to achieve those two things were not only mine.
There were so many people cheering for me every time I reached a milestone; there were so many friends and family picking me up when I fell and thought I couldn’t keep going. There was all of you, who took a chance on my book and helped me reach my funding goal.
If I learned anything this year is that hard-work is not all it takes to achieve big dreams; a support system, a network of love is what make dreams come true.
So once again: Thank You All!
It wouldn’t be a proper end of the year update without a quote from the wisest man in the universe:
“There’s a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive… wormhole refractors… You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold.”
The Tenth Doctor, Fear Her.
As you may have already guessed, I decided to skip yesterday's blog post due to the hectic nature of my schedule this week. This will also be my last update until Saturday. I've got a fair amount of baking I need to get done today, so I'm going to try to keep this one short.
First, on Exile, Magus. We're currently at 64 copies ordered amongst 60 readers, and have 247 followers. This means that 187 of you haven't ordered yet, and if you all were to that would put us up to 251 ordered which is just over the Quill goal. So, obviously I do hope those of you who have been on the fence or otherwise waiting to order will do so soon since we only have 30 days left in the campaign at this point. Also just in case there is still some confusion(which would have unfortunately been caused by my own confusion), everyone physical copy ordered will be a signed copy.
Now on to try to spread a little book love to a book I can't wait to read.
