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Post by Becca Mills on Feb 28, 2014 18:48:25 GMT -5
Today I hit 100 reviews on Nolander. It's taken a good long while, but it feels fine.  |
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Feb 28, 2014 19:36:55 GMT -5
Post by shawninmon on Feb 28, 2014 19:36:55 GMT -5
Congrats, Becca! That's awesome. It feels like somehow getting the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval or something, doesn't it?
I love it when I see Indie authors with triple digit reviews!
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Feb 28, 2014 19:39:16 GMT -5
Post by Daniel on Feb 28, 2014 19:39:16 GMT -5
Congratulations! I still have only about 20 on my first novel. Reviews have pretty much stopped in the past year or so, even though the book is still selling.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:44:37 GMT -5
Post by shawninmon on Feb 28, 2014 19:44:37 GMT -5
Congratulations! I still have only about 20 on my first novel. Reviews have pretty much stopped in the past year or so, even though the book is still selling. I've noticed it's really slowed down for me as well. I only have about 20% as many on my second book as I do my first, although that's partially attributable to the fact that I did four good-sized free runs on the first (accounting for 120,000+ downloads) and have never given the second away. It's just been feeling like reviews are getting a bit stickier to come by. |
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Feb 28, 2014 20:15:22 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Feb 28, 2014 20:15:22 GMT -5
Thanks, guys! For me, it's definitely the giving-it-away part that's generated reviews. With 1200 sales and 40000 giveaways, I suspect almost every review has come from someone who got it for free. I was lucky to get in on Select during its, I don't know, third phase of effectiveness? After they'd downgraded a free download to 1/10 of a sale, but before they made those changes to the Affiliates program that took the wind out of POI and the others. I suspect purchasers review more frequently than free-downloaders, but I think it still takes hundreds of purchases to generate one review. I've gotten one review for every 415 downloads, I think. Shawn, if you'd *only* given away 120000 copies of Feels Like the First Time, you'd be getting one review per 275 downloads, but of course you've also *sold* many copies. Any which way you slice it, only a tiny percentage of people review. It's a struggle, for sure. |
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Feb 28, 2014 23:56:49 GMT -5
Post by The Scroggins! on Feb 28, 2014 23:56:49 GMT -5
Congrats! The most my wife and I have ever received on a book was 58. I can't imagine having 100 reviews. |
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Mar 1, 2014 0:18:55 GMT -5
Post by Pru Freda on Mar 1, 2014 0:18:55 GMT -5
Congrats, Becca. 100 reviews is good going. Strictly Murder was published in July 2012 and despite nearly 30K free downloads and about 2K sales has still only garnered 48 UK reviews and 24 US ones. The sequel, Organized Murder is currently my best seller, but with nowhere near that number of reviews - but then, it's never been free.
Here's to your next 100!
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Mar 1, 2014 0:39:27 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 1, 2014 0:39:27 GMT -5
Thanks, Adam and Lynda! All in all I'd prefer sales to reviews, but in this business, you take your warm-fuzzies where you can get 'em, eh? |
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Mar 1, 2014 4:05:41 GMT -5
Post by Suzy on Mar 1, 2014 4:05:41 GMT -5
100 reviews is fantastic!
Only one of my books has over 100, Hot Property. It has 144 to date but that's as a result of that 60K Bookbub freebie download.
It's getting harder and harder to get reviews these days, so yours are a great achievement.
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Mar 1, 2014 4:40:37 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 1, 2014 4:40:37 GMT -5
100 reviews is fantastic! Only one of my books has over 100, Hot Property. It has 144 to date but that's as a result of that 60K Bookbub freebie download. It's getting harder and harder to get reviews these days, so yours are a great achievement. Thank you, Suzy!  I'm more tickled than I should be, given that I'm just gifting the thing left and right. And good morning! Now it's almost 2:00 here, and I'm going to bed.  |
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Mar 1, 2014 4:41:40 GMT -5
Post by Suzy on Mar 1, 2014 4:41:40 GMT -5
Sleep tight! Hope you get to sleep late...
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Mar 1, 2014 4:50:06 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 1, 2014 4:50:06 GMT -5
Sleep tight! Hope you get to sleep late... Are you kidding? 6:30 on the dot, there's a couple little widget heads next to my bed, making wake-up-Mommy noises in cute little voices.  |
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Mar 1, 2014 4:55:09 GMT -5
Post by Suzy on Mar 1, 2014 4:55:09 GMT -5
I used to plonk mine in front of the TV and conk out on the couch,pretending to watch Barney. Never liked purple after that.  |
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Mar 1, 2014 5:00:52 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 1, 2014 5:00:52 GMT -5
I used to plonk mine in front of the TV and conk out on the couch,pretending to watch Barney. Never liked purple after that. Ours aren't quite old enough to trust in that kind of situation. One of them would be quietly sneaking off to get knives out of the drawer and stick them into electrical outlets. P.S. Barney is the pits! |
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Mar 1, 2014 5:11:28 GMT -5
Post by Suzy on Mar 1, 2014 5:11:28 GMT -5
I hate him! But the kids loved him.
Your girls sound like my boys. They used to announce that they had 'finished sleeping' early in the morning, the eldest usually at 4 pm. 6.30 would have been a sleep in for me. There's less than two years between them,so nearly like twins. Ugh,knives. One of them had the bright idea to saw through the hose of the vacuum cleaner while the other one cut my best sheets to shreds with a nail scissors. My husband was minding them,thinking he could read the paper, as they were so 'quiet'.
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Mar 1, 2014 11:15:02 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 1, 2014 11:15:02 GMT -5
I hate him! But the kids loved him. Your girls sound like my boys. They used to announce that they had 'finished sleeping' early in the morning, the eldest usually at 4 pm. 6.30 would have been a sleep in for me. There's less than two years between them,so nearly like twins. Ugh,knives. One of them had the bright idea to saw through the hose of the vacuum cleaner while the other one cut my best sheets to shreds with a nail scissors. My husband was minding them,thinking he could read the paper, as they were so 'quiet'. Oh, don't even get me started on that kind of thing! I'd tell a few choice stories, but I have to go get ready for a family outing. |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 1, 2014 11:19:46 GMT -5
I have a few worse ones too. Kids! But we survive them and they us...
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Mar 4, 2014 3:42:46 GMT -5
Post by cbedwards on Mar 4, 2014 3:42:46 GMT -5
Congrats!
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Mar 4, 2014 14:09:25 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 4, 2014 14:09:25 GMT -5
Thanks, CB. Not sure my job will survive my kids, Suzy. Just arranging with spouse how to juggle the elder for the day, and probably the rest of the week. School called -- she has an ear infection. Never-ending sicknesses ... |
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Mar 4, 2014 14:17:50 GMT -5
Post by Becca Mills on Mar 4, 2014 14:17:50 GMT -5
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