Through this weekend, One Bride for Seven Brothers: The First Brother is free on Amazon. For the first and only time.
With over 15,000 copies sold and nearly a quarter-million Kindle Unlimited page views, it’s been our most-read novelette to date. When it first launched, it sold on the strength of the title alone. It reads like a sweet mail-order bride story until, you know, it doesn’t.
That pivot caught some readers by surprise. Right as sales started to level off, the vitriolic reviews began. Early reviewers didn’t just dislike what we’d written; they hated our existence. But the heat from those reviews caught enough attention that the story started selling again. Better than ever, if you want to know the truth.
These days, I avoid reviews. It helps me sleep better at night. Renée is made of sterner stuff.
If you, like Renée, wonder how giving the story away will increase our royalties, I’ll tell you what I told her: Volume. I don’t know if a freebie will help, but with over 40,000 AI-generated e-books hitting Amazon every month, I wanted to try something to lift one of our titles above the tide.
If you’d like to read the story that caused one reader to throw her Kindle across the room in disgust, just click here.
With over 15,000 copies sold and nearly a quarter-million Kindle Unlimited page views, it’s been our most-read novelette to date. When it first launched, it sold on the strength of the title alone. It reads like a sweet mail-order bride story until, you know, it doesn’t.
That pivot caught some readers by surprise. Right as sales started to level off, the vitriolic reviews began. Early reviewers didn’t just dislike what we’d written; they hated our existence. But the heat from those reviews caught enough attention that the story started selling again. Better than ever, if you want to know the truth.
These days, I avoid reviews. It helps me sleep better at night. Renée is made of sterner stuff.
If you, like Renée, wonder how giving the story away will increase our royalties, I’ll tell you what I told her: Volume. I don’t know if a freebie will help, but with over 40,000 AI-generated e-books hitting Amazon every month, I wanted to try something to lift one of our titles above the tide.
If you’d like to read the story that caused one reader to throw her Kindle across the room in disgust, just click here.
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