Sales Update: July, International Edition

This is probably the most successful month I've ever seen for sale since I started tracking all of this last year. Without very much advertising I posted Prisoners of War onto Amazon with the new cover by Naziha Zahed and it took off, selling sixteen copies (well seventeen, but someone wimped and returned theirs), in less than two weeks. Meanwhile, For Your Safety, the other story I released, didn't do anywhere as well, but still managed a respectable five copies total. I'd be disappointed, but given the short page count and the non-porn subject matter it did rather well for such a short period.

What's more surprising is the number of international sales. I can usually count on one or two UK sales a month, but I got about five this time, plus one in Germany and two in Italy. Nothing from Spain or France though. Actually given Spain's economic woes right now I'm unsurprised, but France has no excuse. ;p

Things to Do:

1. Write a thank you story for Naziha, based on her Draco and Anya characters. For what I paid for this two covers I got more than my money's worth, and I owe her.

2. Finish work more on Shadow of the Red Vixen. Given my current rate of progress I may end up making a push to complete it during Nanowrimo. Right the silly thing is just staring at me.

3. Finish I Fought the Claw. I'd like to get it out prior to SotRV, unfortunately right now it's got some spoilers for the latter, so it'll have to be released afterward.

4. Further On: Work on the sequel to Triumvirate, and see if I can't create more coherent short stories in the For Your Safety 'verse so I can create an anthology. I might also commission Nez to make a new cover for Triumvirate as well to better reflect the content, but that will have to wait until I can save some money up from my sales.

Units Sold

Prisoners of War: 16 (w/2 UK, 1 DE, 1 IT)

Captive of the Red Vixen: 5 (w/1 UK)

For Your Safety: 5 (w/1 IT, 1 Smashwords)

The Dragon's Companion: 4 (w/1 UK)

Unexpected Diversions: 3 (w/1 UK)

Teal's Bargain: 1

Teal's War: 1

Teal's Choice: 1

Good Landing: 44 (Free)

My tweets

• Tue, 13:53: See! Gay marriage leads to Communism!!! Or is it the other way around? IT'S RIGHT THERE! http://t.co/YADnpavL
• Tue, 18:45: My Timing is Always Terrible http://t.co/QdpcOblE
• Wed, 04:53: Sales Update: July, International Edition http://t.co/DdgZ4QO1

Or I could just re-read "Houseplants of Gor"

There's probably a very interesting essay to be written comparing fantasy/sci-fi BDSM as depicted in John Norman's Gor novels, Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel series and M.C.A. Hogarth's Kherishdar stories, but as that would involve me voluntarily reading the Gor novels, I leave it to someone else.