I’m popular when I’m free, apparently. The Dreaded Day Job is for free this week and I got 12 purchases. Never got a thing when it was full price at $4.00, which is considerably cheaper than a lot of other books out there. I wonder if Amazon puts it up higher on the list when it’s free than when you have to pay full price? That makes no sense to me. What are you doing to my heart, Jeff?

This is really messing with my self-esteem. Am I only getting sales because it’s free this week? Is my writing ‘I’d never actually pay for it’ good? Am I barking up the wrong tree when it comes to things like this? Am I overthinking this?

Why does my breath smell like peanut butter?

I need to take a step back and evaluate this carefully. One: everyone likes free. Yes, I think Amazon does put free stuff higher up on the list to get them in the door, as it were. My book is highly rated, so it’s not bad for something I dashed off in about a month with little in the way of editing. It’s cheap, so price should be no barrier to entry. Unless I should lower the price further? Knock off a dollar? How far down should I go? Maybe I’ll experiment with a temporary price lowering in a few months and see what that does.

Any authors who read this blog: Do you have the same issues when it comes to free versus paid sales through Amazon?

Sorry this is so brief, but this is kinda seriously messing with my head. I’ll have something better for next week. I promise.