The Friday Five - Kindle Free Promotions

Yesterday was my first day of free Kindle promotion. I woke up yesterday morning thinking: during this 5-day free period, I want to give away 1,000 copies of The Treasure Hunter's Lady. One thousand people somewhere on this earth will surely download my book in the coming days. Then I was thinking, gee, that's a lofty goal. It'll never happen. I'll be lucky to get 100.

Let me show you what my downloads looked like at 8 AM CST.

THL is on the bottom.

1700 downloads equates to 

Yesterday at go-home time I was #3.

In the UK?

Gee, not quite 200. Doesn't seem like much, does it? But I've heard it said that the UK is behind us as far as e-books go. So where's this put me on a chart?

So, people who think self-publishing isn't worth anything, got a question for you. You're going to eat your words, how do you want them served?