Hits on Blog Spiked

I noticed that hits on the blog spiked over the weekend, and I'm wondering if the posting of the 15% discount was responsible for that. I posted that on Saturday, and I usually don't post on the weekend. I did this time because my publisher was offering that discount for Mother's Day, so I went ahead and passed that on to any readers of the blog.

But I'm also wondering if it translated into any additional purchases of Killer of Killers. I won't find out until the quarterly data is released. Up until now the sales have been modest, so it will be interesting to see if that discount did result in any sales.

And if it did, then I would hope that discounts would be more frequent. The money isn't really big for authors, btw. The publisher gets the bulk of that. My ten per cent is next to nothing when it comes to cashing in. It's the sales number that might attract Hollywood, and that's where the big money is. But Hollywood won't come calling for a book with modest sales.

Not that a book has to be a bestseller. But it does have to have a following, and books like Twilight, Hunger Games, and Harry Potter had huge followings before they became movies. Even Fifty Shades of Grey does, and now it's going to be a movie, too. Those authors are financially secure now. How nice that would be.