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A Christmas Outing -   a 'Thank you' message

4/12/2016

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Christmas came early for me last week when I released my latest book, A Christmas Outing, a comedy short story. After battling with infuriating technical issues, I was finally in a position to announce publication last Sunday. I made the decision to release the story free for the first five days, mainly as a thank you to you readers for your support over the past year. What followed exceeded all my expectations.

A Christmas Outing went on to hit well over 2000 downloads throughout the five-day period and, at its peak, it was #26 in the overall Amazon UK charts, #1 in short stories, #1 in gay literary fiction and, over in the US, the book hit #1 in the LGBT short reads chart. In both the UK and the US, this was my most successful book launch yet.

'But the book was free,' I hear you cry. 'You won't have made a penny from the 2000+ downloads.' This is true and at the same time not. Of course, I didn't make any money directly from the promotion, but sales of my other gay literary fiction books - FAG, Pride, Not Just a Boy - have been boosted. How long this will last, I cannot say, but it's hugely rewarding to witness, knowing how much hard work has gone into every book publication.

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I have a full-time job at present. My aim in writing is not, and has never been, to make money; it is to share my work with readers, and reaching out to people, entertaining them and making them think is something I cannot put a price on. Of course, I'd love to be able to reach the point where I can rely on book sales financially, but for now I'm more than happy just to have people read my books.

Thanks must go to Book Hippo, a UK-based newsletter that featured my book and undoubtedly boosted downloads, and to all who shared A Christmas Outing on social media. And of course, to everyone who downloaded the book!

Happy Christmas and thanks for reading!

Jonathan x

Download A Christmas Outing now from Amazon.
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3 Comments
T4bsF
5/12/2016 11:19:09 am

Just started reading - thanks Jonathan.

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Jonathan
5/12/2016 09:15:04 pm

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy :)

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Kats Stories link
15/9/2023 11:09:37 am

Lovelly blog you have here

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