Comments for Graham Storrs

Comment on The Book Harvest Literary Agency to Represent Graham Storrs by Barry Rosenberg

Barry Rosenberg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:14:43 +0000

Thanks, Graham.
I’ve contacted Ineke.
Barry

Comment on The Book Harvest Literary Agency to Represent Graham Storrs by Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:42:25 +0000

Barry, if you’re in the business, you’ll know how painfully slow the process is. So, no sale yet, but I have absolutely no complaints about how things are going. Ineke has been opening up some terrific opportunities for my work and I am very confident that something will happen eventually.

Comment on The Book Harvest Literary Agency to Represent Graham Storrs by Barry Rosenberg

Barry Rosenberg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:41:12 +0000

Graham
Has BHLA worked out for you?
Thanks
Barry

Comment on Best-Seller for a… Couple More Days by Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:44:05 +0000

Thanks, Andy. Still spluttering from that slap on the back.

Short stories don’t seem to have any problem being promoted on Amazon. I know Konrath and his mates all put their short stories up there, both individually and in collections. At #1 on the Science Fiction best seller list for days now has been a short story called “Alice in Deadland” – although what a zombie story is doing in the sci-fi list is anybody’s guess (or all the other fantasy books and short stories up there for that matter. Yes, George RR Martin, I’m looking at you! It’s a shame no-one curates these lists to throw this stuff over to Fantasy where it belongs!)

Oops, started ranting again…

Comment on Best-Seller for a… Couple More Days by Andy Shackcloth

Andy Shackcloth — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:15:18 +0000

Just to let you know that I’m well chuffed for you!

The stats of sales makes for very interesting reading. I was also very interested in the point you made about the network of bloggers looking out for free books. It is making me wonder if it is worth tapping directly into these networks, but then it carries the risk of not getting your Amazon ratings increased if you do.

However they may be good venues to promote short stories that would never make it to Amazon; your space elevator tale for example.

Anyway, huge slap on the back, well done and thanks for all the info (nearly wrote ‘fish’).

Comment on Best-Seller for a… Couple More Days by Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:06:04 +0000

JF Penn has a nice ring to it. That will definitely be the most interesting of the experiments! As ever, I’ll be watching carefully.

Yes, it’s a great time to be a writer. I was just thinking earlier today how it paid off asking for my rights back from my publisher. It’s so much easier to try things that could be a major hassle otherwise.

Comment on Best-Seller for a… Couple More Days by Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:45:24 +0000

That’s awesome Graham and something I am definitely going to try myself. I have 3 experiments for this year
1) Paid promo on Pixel of Ink
2) KDP Select and the free period
3) Changing my writing name to JF Penn as I get a lot of feedback that I write like a man and many female thriller writers use initials – so there must be something in it!
I shall be trying to keep all these separate so we’ll see how it goes!
Aren’t we lucky to be able to play around with these things?
Thanks, Joanna

Comment on Best-Seller for a Day by Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:12:21 +0000

Thanks, J-A. I have a vision of a great cloud of people hovering over the Web, just waiting for a free ebook to appear, then swooping down on it when one pokes its head up. My only hope is that the books that are grabbed up this way don’t just sit there on people’s hard drives but are actually read at some time.

Comment on Best-Seller for a Day by J-A Brocke

J-A Brocke — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:02:41 +0000

Even though it’s free, people wouldn’t be getting it if they didn’t think it was worth their time, Graham. Congratulations!

Comment on Best-Seller for a Day by Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:12:24 +0000

That must have been a great Christmas present, Louise. Honestly, I’m not expecting much after today’s feeding frenzy, but I would not be unhappy if I did manage to sell one or two extra…

I hope your sales keep being brilliant!