Elizabeth Marx's Page

Hi-

I am new here and just wanted to see if you could help me out and follow my book review blog: http://myaddictionisreading.blogspot.com/ 

I am having a giveaway right now for a $20 gift card. Feel free to enter! 

If you follow me, I will return the favor.

Thanks, Cami

You're welcome Elizabeth

Well you're on your way to being free on Amazon! It takes awhile but it does happen, a couple of weeks with the novel, it is now finally free and going like hotcakes. I have told them about the short stories and am still waiting for it to go free.

Have a great Christmas, I have been 'elfing' as well and we have a five year old who is counting the minutes!

Cheers

Julie

Hi Elizabeth

Welcome to book blogs. The key to getting books free on Amazon is through Smashwords. You can choose to make books free on Smashwords and eventually that will filter through to the other sites, B & N, Apple, Sony etc. When that happens go to the feature on your Amazon page that allows you to let them know of a cheaper price. They don't care about Smashwords, but they do care about the others, so if you let them know (cut and paste url) about Apple, Sony etc....eventually they will change the Amazon price to free. But sometimes, not for long.

I have 3 books on Amazon and Smashwords. My short stories and Dad's war letters have always been free on Smashwords, 99cents on Amazon. Late November Dad's letters went free on Amazon and have had around 4000 downloads on Amazon to date. By contrast 330 on SW in the same time frame. My novel went free on SW same day and has had 103 downloads. Amazon made it free for about four hours and the downloads shot up, but after it was put back to 99cents, it has continued to sell well. The key is to get on the rankings at Amazon, people buy off the rankings list.

No, my books are not companions to each other, although the short stories does contain a similar story to the novel. I have googled forums with interest in the subjects, lots of WWII forums in my case, and posted there - you need to join in discussion, not just promote. Follow people on twitter who tweet about book sites that promote. Search Amazon for threads you can join in the discussion. Authors Den is good, Good Reads is great, Book Barista allows you to feature books on home page for free, Your Books is a good site, so is Bestseller Bound. You will find all these on Google. Hope all this helps. Good luck! I will have my next novel up around Feb.

Cheers

Julie

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Hi Elizabeth,

I would be more than happy to read and review To Breathe the Breath of Isis, if you would like to send me it by in a PDF format to michellemurphy1987@hotmail.co.uk.

We can also discuss a possible guest post.

Many thanks,

Michelle

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Christina

You're welcome for the welcome, Elizabeth! If you ever need any help proofreading or editing any of your newest novels before publication, please keep me in mind. For more information, you can click on this link: http://kateevangelistarandr.blogspot.com/p/on-writing.html

You're very welcome, Elizabeth. Have a great weekend!

I am convinced, Elizabeth, it was a computer error. And if it wasn't, no matter, because I put the book up for free for the first month - about 95% of those downloads. I have slunk steadily since then. Still #31 if you search for "Rome" by popularity in Kindle books.

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