Amazon KDP Select - Success or Epic Fail?

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Okay . . . real quick like.

I'm an author. A great one if you ask me.
9 of my titles are conventionally published.
5 (maybe 6 now - I can't remember) are not.

For the titles that I own the rights to and self published, I took a whirl (or 3) with the Amazon KDP Select program.  You know how it goes . . . put it in the program exclusively for 90 days, get 5 "free" days in return, get a million zillion downloads and then thousands of sales after that along with new readers.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

I've tried it a few times. Didn't quite work like that for me. Here's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Upload my properly formatted book with links to my other works - check
Great cover - uh . . . beauty is in the eye of the beholder right?  Check.
Schedule some promotional dates - check.
Link up with E-reader News Today, Pixel of Ink and 40 other "we'll help you" sites - check.
Beg people to download a free copy via social networks sites with automated posts - check.

Now here's where it gets "fun" . . .

Wait and watch the zillion downloads roll in . . . Well I've got the waiting part down to a science.  Still working on watching the zillion downloads roll in.  I can't seem to get that part right.

Make the top 100 free downloads list, or just improve your overall rankings to set yourself up for future sales once your campaign ends.  Mmm-hmm.  I can't even PAY people to help me get there. 

See increase sales for a few days/weeks/months after your promos. Ummm . . . did I miss a step or two?  I keep clicking on the refresh button, but I'm not seeing that happen.  Is something wrong with my computer?

Anyway - I'm definitely team Amazon, and have nothing against the KDP Select program, but have my results catapulted me to earning my mortgage payment every month?  Nope. Close to it? Not even. 

So, here is my final test. I'm having a free promo day today - for my short story release - Lisa's Dress. Plain and simple, I'd like you to "like" it, then download it. Then I'd like you to:

Tweet it

Share it

Stumble it

Linked In it
Pinterest it

Blog it

Delicious it

Google Plus it

"All-the-ones-I-can't think of" it

And oh yeah - and finally write a review for it when you're done to show your appreciation that it was free.  Okay if you would just do the first two, I'd appreciate it. Honestly.

If you don't want to do that - can you leave a comment?

Please???   Pretty please with sugar on top? :-)

Hope you enjoyed this post! I'll be back later with results!

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Easy Like Sunday Morning Reading - Lisa's Dress

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Looking for some Easy-Like-Sunday-Morning reading?  

Here's an excerpt from Lisa's Dress - a short story.

Normally Will did his own gym laundry; always had. But for some reason I thought I'd do it for him. I dug past a weight belt, a pair of fingerless gloves, his iPod, and a combination lock to pull out a couple pairs of shorts, a dingy tee, and two stained sweat towels. When I tugged at the towels, I caught site of the box of Trojan Magnums. It wasn't the presence of the condoms that stunned me, because I'd seen them in his bag before, as they had been there from the time we dated. I'd believed that Will was true to me and we were exclusive, but I knew he had a past and was glad to see that he was responsible and cared enough about himself to protect himself. We'd used condoms occasionally while we dated, but once I got pregnant with Nikki, we stopped using them all together, even after Nikki's birth. I knew exactly how many condoms were left in his bag, in a little black box, wrapped in gold foil. Seven. Each time I randomly checked for no other reason besides I knew they existed, there'd always been seven. So I was taken aback that morning when I went to do his laundry, peeked in the box and only found three...

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