Here it is! (My monthly recap!)
And the Grand Total for September is:
1,640
Let's Break it Down, shall we?
From Sept 1- Sept 30:
The Guardian sold 293 Amazon US copies, 12 Amazon UK copies, 0 Amazon DE copies, and 16 copies on Barnes and Noble for a total of 321 copies, or 10.7 sales per day (this is up from last month's 7 sales per day).
Vendetta sold 190 Amazon US copies, 8 Amazon UK copies, 0 Amazon DE copies, and 15 copies on Barnes and Noble for a total of 213 copies, or 7.1 sales per day (this is up slightly from last month's 6 sales per day).
Cross My Heart, which has traditionally been my big seller is down again this month, but I still managed 914 Amazon US copies, 95 Amazon UK copies, 6 Amazon DE copies, and 91 copies on Barnes and Noble for a total of 1,106, or 36.8 sales per day (this is down from last month's 62 sales per day).
My best Cross My Heart month this year (by far) was June (114 copies per day!). Still, with all of the changes being made at Amazon, I'm very pleased that I'm still maintaining thirty sales a day. (I've been hovering between the 2 and 3k ranking on Amazon, if you're curious.) Right now, I've slipped off two bestseller lists (still remaining on the Love and Romance lists), and I show up on the "Top Rated" list sporadically.
I did a little pricing experiment this month. For approximately two weeks, The Guardian was listed at $.99. I know you're supposed to price your book and hold it for a while, but after two weeks of no change in sales/ranking, I decided I like royalties more than high sales. (For the record, The Guardian priced at $.99 sold 9 copies a day, and at $2.99 sold 10 copies a day.) Remember that, if you price your ebook below $.99 on Amazon, you're subject to the 35% royalty rate (instead of 70%). To put it in perspective, you have to sell 6 copies of a book at $.99 to equal 1 at $2.99.
September *flew* by, you guys! I'm not sure how October will go, but with the new Kindles (and the Kindle Fire!) available from Amazon, I'm really interested in November, December, and January. This will be the first full holiday season I've experienced, and I'm curious to see if it will be as great as everyone says it is.
In the meantime, thank you *so much* for the emails, the tweets, the comments, the reviews, and the ratings! Amazon algorithms are nice, but books are reader-driven, too, so thank YOU for getting the word out. Always. :)
KK
