Author: Scribble & Spark

As promised, I’m checking in with the takeaways from last month’s promotion. What worked? What didn’t? And how do I measure success? In January, Scribble & Spark ran a special through KDP with the “goal” of getting the 2018 release White Dove to the number one book in its genre on Amazon. To help promote the…

Day 1 Strategy:  Ad stacks, social media, word of mouth.  Inspire people to click and see what the fuss is all about. Day 1 Results: So far, so good!  As of this afternoon, White Dove was #6 in Historical Fiction- Irish (exciting, but probably a really small niche community of interest), but #44 in Fiction-…

Back in October I ran a promo for White Dove and had unexpected success.  For five days, the eBook version was free on Amazon.  I had stacked a few ads and made a few social media posts, hoping that it would gain some attention.  What I didn’t expect was that it would rise to the…

When I began writing my last novel, White Dove, my main fear was that I wouldn’t be able to set it accurately in time and place.  I agonized over it.  I lost sleep over it.  The fear of missing the mark rattled my confidence more than once.  For White Dove–and for any work that requires an author to…

I have always admired organized people.  These are the people who always know where their car keys are, who can manage to fold and put away their laundry, and whose desks aren’t stacks of papers and disorderly sticky notes.  Amazing.  I applaud you (from behind my piles of sticky notes and index cards). My disorganization doesn’t just stop…