Running from December 15th to January 1st, most of my books are enrolled at 50% OFF, except a few which are enrolled at 25% in order to maintain a $0.99 minimum and the rest which are already at that $0.99 minimum:
Check out my book list at Smashwords:
Yes, I’m even later with this than I was last month. Life’s been busy and the same issues I have with Internet access at the beginning of each month (tied to my cellphone plan) were still an issue.
Anyway, blog hits declined in August, but only in comparison to July. They were still better than June or May and were better than August 2022. If I just had the time to finish my current book and keep up with all of the social media posting to promote my existing books, things could be better.
Just a quick status update on things happening in my life;
Newsletter #44
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Alexa has been on my list of want-to-read authors for quite a while and I’ve finally gotten around to purchasing one of her books.
Update: My review….
I love the writing style, it’s just that this was perhaps the wrong book to be my first “Alexaverse” read, despite the author’s note that I should not need to have read any of the other books to understand this one (I’ll also note that if you’re going to have a “preferred reading order” list for a connected universe, the best place for it is at the beginning of the book, not the end).
As for this story specifically, it left me feeling sad and uncertain how much of it was real, versus illusion being imposed on the main character. Perhaps I would have more certainty if I had read what came before it or that question would be answered by later books.
My very first erotica story (“A Dream for Papa”) was posted to Literotica on March 13, 2016. Ever since, I’ve counted that as the start of my writing “career”, even though I didn’t launch the “M.R. Leenysman” pseudonym until later that year (based on my Literotica login, which is leenysman, standing for “Leeny’s Man”).
So, this March 13th marks my 7th anniversary of doing this — my writer-versary, if you will. So, how am I going to observe it? By having a 50% OFF sale at my store here at Leeny’s Press for the whole week — March 13-19!!
Unlike sales at Smashwords which I’ve promoted in the past, this even includes my $0.99 books, marked down to just $0.49!! (Smashwords maintains a minimum of $0.99, even during sales, and marking books down to $0 doesn’t benefit me much)
However, so that credit card processing fees don’t eat up a bunch of small transactions, I am establishing a minimum total purchase amount of $1.45 (should let you buy THREE $0.49 books, if you choose that combo). I’m likely to keep that minimum in place after the sale.
Anyway, if you’ve been on the fence about trying one of my books, this would be the time to buy, don’t you think?
Yeah, I know I’m kinda late in reporting this. Life’s been a bit chaotic lately.
The good news is that blog traffic rose again, to the second-highest level in the last 12 months, exceeded only by July 2022. No new releases during the month, as I’m still working on Book 8 of the current series, currently titled “Homecummings.” Trying to figure out whether this is the ending of the series or not, etc. Hopefully I get it straightened out soon.
I’ve read and enjoyed the first three books in this series, but had not gotten a good opportunity to pick up the finale to the series. Now I have.
Overdue, of course. January’s hits rose over December’s, but not back to October’s level. I need to get my work-in-progress finished so I can publish it.
Let’s see if Musk broke WordPress’ ability to post to Twitter….
Blog hits for December were higher than November, but not higher than October’s. 2022’s total hits were also slightly lower than 2021’s. Let’s see if 2023 continues that trend…
Hits to the site dropped in November, compared to both October and September. That is all.
