The Grey Man- An update…

Both of the first two books continue to sell slowly, but honestly they’ve sold more than I ever thought they would!  If you want a copy, hit the links on the left and they will take you to Amazon where you can get Kindle or dead tree versions.

Thank you to all of you that have purchased them, and thank you for the reviews you’ve posted. Book 1, Vignettes now has 85 reviews and book 2, Payback has 45 reviews. I’m hoping to get to the ‘magic’ 100 reviews for each book, those provide statistically significant numbers and feedback.

Your reviews are what are actually helping me sell the books, as they are what people see, more than anything other than the cover.  And for those eye catchers, I have to thank Mrs. Garceau !!!

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But more importantly, looking at the bottom row of customers who bought other books, I feel that I could not be in better company!!!

Where am I on book three? Right now I’m about 42,000 words into it. Work and the holidays pretty much kicked my ass as far as having time to write. But I did get about 20 hours on airplanes to get a couple of chapters written.  Based on where the characters are taking me, there may be a fourth book in the series.

After talking to a voice over expert, it’s just not worth his time to do an audio version of the book due to the limited sales. And frankly, I don’t know who would buy it anyway. Ten hours is about what it would take for each book, and that is a LOT of work (2-3 times the final number) for a voice to do with a very limited $$ return. And they need to make money too…

Bottom line, no audio book at this time.  I will revisit this later, if sales improve.

Thank you to all those who’ve emailed me, poked me to get back to writing, and offered incentive by telling me they are loaning/giving copies to others who are reading and liking the books.

One thing I am curious about, is did anybody use the links I provided in the back of The Grey Man- Payback to go look at the other authors? I hope so…

If that’s well received, I’m going to do it again in book three and feature female authors.

Again, thank you all!

And one more thing- Mrs. Johnson is in the running (a strong second right now) for the Bookbzz.com prize in the Biography and Memoir genre.  PLEASE go help push her to the win, HERE.

And HERE is a link to the blog post over at HOTR that prompted it. A great read, a great cause… nuff said…

Comments

The Grey Man- An update… — 10 Comments

  1. Great! More writey, less talky. I’m jones for my fix, man.

    But yes, I ordered “Above Reproach” when I was about half way done with “Payback” so as to have something to move on to.

  2. Can’t wait for the new one! Yippee! I just gave your second one as a gift again…to two people.

  3. I have to agree with WellSeasonedFool More writing, lesss talking. I cant wait for book three.

  4. Bought both books, dead tree versions. I’m working on my own stuff and would perhaps wish to speak/write to you when I am close to being ready, in terms of venues to publish, etc.

    I put my $$ where my mouth is. Awaiting book 3.

    BZ

  5. Yeah, I looked up JD Kinman, going “that sounds vaguely familiar”, and bought the book on spec. It’s sitting in the To Be Read file on the kindle, patiently waiting for more of that nigh-mythical free time.