Four of our books are finally up as audiobooks! Do you hear me ( Read more... )

 So, I have a request for all of you out there. Well, those of you who read. Well, those of you who read my stuff. Well, those of you who like reading my stuff.

Or even if you don't, what the heck.

As all of you know--well, some of you--we just re-released my first published novel, Storm Chaser. Thanks to Emily for doing ( Read more... )

Like many writers, I like it when people read my stuff. I like it even more when they buy my stuff, because that gets me one step closer to retiring to the life of Gentleman Author ( Read more... )

 I embarked on a fun experiment at the end of November, and by fun I mean it wasn't much fun, and by experiment I mean I had no idea what I was doing.

One of my goals has been to increase book sales, a goal for most authors. The problem is, when it comes to sales an author is competing with--well, almost all those other authors. Writers don't ( Read more... )

I noticed recently that if I went to Amazon.com and searched for "Mark R. Hunter", I did not come up first.

In the Kindle store, the first six hits didn't have "Mark R. Hunter" attached to them in any way, and none of them had the word "Mark" at all. In fact, four of them also didn't have the word "Hunter".

Under books, "Mark R Hunter" was the ( Read more... )

During that horrendous month, February, I avoided promoting my books (but it’s March, so buy me!) It was to get some sense of what selling efforts were doing, or not doing, at least in some areas-those areas being direct sales and Amazon ( Read more... )

SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK ( Read more... )

Those of you who are curious about whether Amazon book rankings are a good measure of selling success might be interested in this story:

On January 30th, my Amazon ranking was 352,039. Two days later two of my books were sold through Amazon-just two (as far as I can tell), but within just hours of each other.

My Amazon ranking shot to 6,093.

So ( Read more... )