First…Exodus. It’s back from the editor and being loaded up this week for pre-orders. It’s already available on iTunes, and should be up for pre-order soon on Amazon, Smashwords, and Kobo. I will have it available at B&N and Google Play, but not as a pre-order, so if you shop there, you’ll just have to put a little note on your planner for August 15th.
Last night I compiled my sales numbers and analytics for July, because the Corporate Gal in me likes to do that sort of thing. Summer is typically a slow time for book sales, and it was slow for me because my last release was Bare Bones in mid May. Still, I was interested to see that in the US the Templar Series tends to sell approx. 50% as well as the Imp Series, but in the UK the Templar Series does between 70-80% of the Sam books. Read through from book 1 to book 2 is hard to track since A Demon Bound is free right now. It used to be 70% of those who bought book 1 went on to buy book 2, but with it free, I’m finding in the US that book 2 sales are about 10% of book 1 downloads. In the UK, that’s more like 23%. Which makes me believe that we Yanks are a bunch of free book hoarders. Given the number of freebies on my TBR list, I’m guilty of that too. The good news is after book 2, read through is roughly 90%. That’s a lot of reader dedication – and I’m very grateful for you Imp lovers out there!
In other news, my narrator is making progress on the audio edition of Dead Rising. I’ll let everyone know when it’s out, but we plan to have the whole Templar Series in audio by late fall. I’ll be contracting Exodus in Audio next week, too.
Then there’s this. I’m still a little obsessed with campers – obsessed enough that I did a Craigslist search over the weekend. Luckily for my wallet, the 2004 Airstream Bambi 16′ beauty that was advertised turned out to be the camper equivalent of a Nigerian Prince scam. Seems there are weasels out there who lure you in with stock photos and a reasonable price, only to tell you the camper is out in Godforsaken City, Idaho on an Air Force base or in a storage facility while the owner is off valiantly serving their country. They’ll perform a transfer of the trailer to the nearest Air Force base to me, then have it towed it to my house for NO CHARGE!!! as long as I put 3/4 of the sale price down through ebay motors, etc. Totally refundable if I don’t want the trailer. Because that’s so above board, and nice of them to transfer it across the country and tow it back and forth on their dime with no obligation at all.
How about no? So my camper dreams remain dreams right now. Maybe someday when HBO options the Imp Series I’ll buy a ginormous Airstream and cruise around the country with the two hellhounds, living the writerly nomadic existence. So get cracking, folks! Let those HBO people know they need some Sam in their line-up!