MY BOOKBUB EXPERIMENT by John A. A. Logan
By April, the $1300 I’d made from a Christmas promo of The Survival of Thomas Ford had come in from Amazon. I was faced again with the decision of whether to risk/invest some of that money back into advertising for Thomas Ford…or, on the other hand, whether to “take this money and run…” I’d heard some interesting things about Bookbub: http://home.bookbub.com/home/ In particular, the great results Ingrid Ricks had had with a Bookbub promo for her memoir, FOCUS, made me feel this would be worth a try: http://www.amazon.com/FOCUS-A-Memoir-ebook/dp/B009WCYXY6/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1370449480&sr=1-3&keywords=focus I knew categorization might present problems. The Survival of Thomas Ford has always been received by some readers as a mystery/thriller, and others as literary fiction, and then by some others as a “literary thriller” (this hybrid interpretation of Ford goes right back to 2010 when it was represented by MBA Literary...