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Your friendly reminder: Faerie Blood and Bone Walker on sale

Since I’ve gotten quite a bit of surprising action this weekend on the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker sale, here’s an official post about that. And a big shoutout and thanks to andpuff, Tanya Huff, for signal boosting me! If you’re visiting my site because of her RT’ing me on Twitter, hi there and thank you for coming by!

So here’s what you need to know: both of my two indie-published novels, Faerie Blood and Bone Walker, Books 1 and 2 of the Free Court of Seattle urban fantasy series, are currently on sale in ebook form for 99 cents each. This sale was launched in honor of Orycon, which I just attended, and is also in honor of general Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday/Please Everybody Buy Our Stuff Weekend. 😉

Both of these books are on sale on major ebook vending sites: Amazon, Nook, iTunes, Kobo, Google Play, and Smashwords. Note that on Smashwords in particular, the price is actually also “Reader Sets Price”, so while the suggested price there is currently 99 cents, you can actually set it to anything you like. (And a big shoutout and thanks to the reader who gave me five dollars for Faerie Blood, too!)

All the major links can be found on the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker pages. Look for the “Buy the Book” button in the top sections of each page.

You can also buy the ebooks directly from me at my Square storefront, where the 99 cent price is in effect as well.

Thanks to all who’ve spread the word, and if you’re a new reader picking up my stuff for the first time, thanks for your purchase and I hope you enjoy my stories!

November 28, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

Time for another Faerie Blood and Bone Walker sale in honor of Orycon!

Dara and I are heading to Orycon in another couple of weeks! And as I’ve done at Norwescon and Worldcon this year, I’ll be contributing books to sell at the NIWA table.

WHICH MEANS: it’s time for another convention deal!

The ebooks of both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker are back on sale for 99 cents each. ALSO: since I’ll be doing this deal at the convention, I’ll extend it to online purchasers as well. Since the print copies of these two books normally sell for $15 each, if you buy them both together, you can have ’em for $25!

These prices are in effect until December 1st. Mostly this sale is in honor of Orycon, but also because Thanksgiving is coming up, so I thought hey, I’ll keep the sale going till Cyber Monday!

For the ebooks, the 99 price point is in effect now on all major platforms where I sell ebooks. Click over to the Faerie Blood or Bone Walker pages and hit the “Buy The Book” buttons to see the major places in question.

If you want the print editions, head over to my Square marketplace and click down to the ‘Paperbacks’ section. The bundle is the third option in that part of the page.

As always, shoot me questions if you have ’em! And spread the word!

November 11, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

Faerie Blood

Hey, Kobo readers! 50% off sale for Faerie Blood!

Those of you who read on the Kobo, be advised that if you don’t already have Faerie Blood, you should be able to pick it up for 50 percent off over the next couple of days! The Writing Life folks are running a promotion described in full here.

Pertinent discount codes to use at checkout are as follows:

Canada
October 28th – October 31st
Promo Code: CA50SALE

United States/Australia/New Zealand
October 27th – October 30th
Promo Code: GET50SALE

United Kingdom
October 30th – November 2nd
Promo Code: UK50SALE

Spread the word around to anybody you know who reads via Kobo, won’t you? Thank you!

(Note also: this will only apply to Faerie Blood, since my other two indie titles, Bone Walker and The Blood of the Land, are currently deployed to Kobo via Smashwords and are not active in the Writing Life system.)

October 29, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

Faerie Blood

Faerie Blood sales numbers to date

Earlier this month author Kameron Hurley posted this writeup of what an author can reasonably expect in terms of sales numbers throughout the lifetime of a book. It’s interesting reading and I recommend it, just on general principles of managing your expectations if you’re trying to get something published.

Now, mind you, she’s focusing on traditional publishing on this post. But she refers to a couple of numbers I want to call out that are of particular interest to me. This:

The average book sells 3000 copies in its lifetime (Publishers Weekly, 2006).

And also this:

The average traditionally published book which sells 3,000 in its entire lifetime in print only sells about 250-300 copies its first year.

Now let me throw you a couple of numbers for Faerie Blood, which is hands down my best-selling title to date.

I do not have complete and accurate numbers for sales of Faerie Blood‘s Drollerie Press edition, given that I was never given a complete accounting of all the sales I’m pretty sure it made. My best estimates are that between 2009 and 2011, it scored somewhere between 300 and 500 sales.

Faerie Blood‘s second edition, released to public sale following my 2012 Kickstarter, is closing in on the 1,000 sales mark as of this writing. My spreadsheet that I use to track sales currently has a total of 932 sales in it.

This means that overall, since its original release in 2009, Faerie Blood has achieved somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 sales.

Which in turn means that it has achieved somewhere around the vicinity of half the sales that a traditionally published book can expect in its lifetime.

And so far, I’m still regularly selling copies. Since Faerie Blood‘s second edition release, I have not gone a single month without selling at least one copy on Amazon.com. And sometime in the next few months, maybe even before the end of the year, it’s very plausible that I will hit the 1,000 sales mark for the second edition all by itself.

Would I have done better if I’d chosen to pursue traditional publishing with this book? Possibly. Possibly not. But I am very grateful that the book’s done as well as it has, particularly as a self-published title. Many thanks to all who have bought it, and who continue to support it by spreading the word to friends and/or posting reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. It’s numbers like these that encourage me to continue carving out my tiny little space in the vast world of online publishing–because, slowly but surely, y’all are finding my stories.

And I hope you’ll stick around for more.

September 28, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

I now have a marketplace on Square

Thanks to having gotten a Kickstarter update from the nice folks at Crossed Genres (who are taking preorders for their new title Hidden Youth right over here and you should go and check that out), I now know that Square has the ability to set up storefronts for people who sell via them.

And with that in mind: BEHOLD! I now have a Square storefront!

Available for sale on this are the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker ebooks, the print editions, and the remaining copies I have of the Faerie Blood ebook bundle CD (which includes both editions of Faerie Blood, as well as the short story “The Blood of the Land”).

This will NOT be supplanting the Bandcamp pages that Dara set up for the two paperback books–those will remain the best way to order the paperbacks from me if you’re not in the US, since Square doesn’t handle international shipping. But if you’re in the US, this will now be an option for you if you’d like to buy my books.

Please spread the word!

September 4, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

Faerie Blood, Rebels of Adalonia

Holy crap! I’m in LIBRARIES!

Smashwords reported to me an awesome thing today: to wit, I’ve made my first sale of Faerie Blood via Overdrive! This means that some library somewhere has elected to purchase that book to make it available to their patrons. Which means, somebody will be able to check out Kendis & Company via Overdrive really soon. 😀

What I do not know is what library might have made that purchase, though. I’m googling around tonight to see if there’s a way to find this out, and this has led me to Worldcat.org, which is apparently a very large database of what’s available at libraries.

Through this, I have now also determined that my Carina books are ALSO available in a small handful of library systems!

The Brooklyn Public Library has all three of the Rebels books, and in fact has two copies of Victory showing up in their search results on me, here. So if you’re a patron of their system, you can read my whole trilogy through them! Awesome. And their Twitter account is here.

The Hennepin County Library in Minnesota apparently has Valor and Victory but NOT Vengeance, according to their search results. If you’re a Minnesota patron, consider them. Also consider asking them to pick up Vengeance to round out the set! They’re on Twitter here.

The Los Angeles Public Library just has Valor, but hey, if they’re going to have only one of my books, that IS the correct one to have to start the trilogy! If you’re in L.A., consider asking them to pick up books 2 and 3, won’t you?

Same notation for the Calgary Public Library and oh wow I’m readable in at least one Canadian library, how awesome is this. <3 They also just have Valor, but that’s a start!

The New York Public Library only has Vengeance, which is an odd purchasing decision on their part, but hey, not my call to make! Do I have any New York readers who might consider asking them to also get Valor and Victory? ‘Cause yeah, if you try to read this trilogy starting with Vengeance, you WILL be confused.

This is PARTICULARLY amazing: there’s a copy of Victory in the Auckland Libraries system in New Zealand! O.O Apologies in advance to any New Zealanders who might check that book out and be really really confused since it’s the tail end of the trilogy. Do please consider asking them to also pick up Valor and Vengeance!

And, much closer to home, the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative has a copy of Victory, and so do the Douglas County Libraries in Colorado, here.

Many thanks to all library purchasers who saw fit to pick up any of my Rebels of Adalonia books! Particularly Auckland and Calgary! But really, all of you!

Because HOLY CRAP I’m in libraries. If I could reach back in time and share this news with High School Anna, who spent her study hall time slurping up every book she could find in the school libraries, High School Anna would cry with joy. Current Day Anna is pretty close to doing so herself, and has just thrown off a flurry of shoutouts on Twitter to these various library systems. :~)

ETA: I am informed by Vancouver-based friend sticckler that the Rebels books are ALSO in the Vancouver Public Library system! And they have the entire trilogy, and people are even checking it out! I shall be adding this to the list of Reasons Why I Love Vancouver!

Anybody else want to share a library system sighting of any of my books with me? 😀

August 28, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Worldcon sale for Faerie Blood and Bone Walker!

Since Worldcon is IMMINENT (and I have posted about that very thing right over here on Here Be Magic), I have elected to put Faerie Blood AND Bone Walker on sale for 99 cents!

This price will last until 8/27, so as to give any congoers I happen to talk to at the NIWA table time to get home from the convention and buy my ebooks if they are so inclined. So if you’re reading this, whether or not you’ll be at Worldcon, this will be an excellent time to snap up both these books!

And if you’re so inclined, spread the word, won’t you? Here are pertinent links to share! (If you don’t see the price down to 99 cents yet, give it a bit, various sites may take a bit to catch up to the prices I just set!)

Cheers all and hope to see some of you at the convention!

August 12, 2015 by Angela Korra'ti

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