My KDP Free Book Giveaway

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. One person found the premise of What We Conceal interesting enough to grab for free.

It would be natural to think I'm disappointed, but I'm shocked I even got one. I wonder how they found the book. I half-heartedly tried, with no success.

I do believe, and Redditers tell me, that some genres excel at giveaways. I've maybe been too dismissive of them. I'm just saying they don't work for me. Marketing contemporary fiction gets to be disheartening, and quickly. Sure, I'm envious of other writers. This is not a universal criticism, but many of the books that get grabbed up are poorly written. I've sampled a lot of them. Rather than being jealous, though, I shouldn't give a damn. They are what they are, and if people like 'em, that's all that matters. Maybe those writers who churn out a new romance every month really agonize over their manuscripts. 🤣 A month, though? I barely know where my story is going after a month. 

Some say that a KDP free promotion can drive Kindle Unlimited reads. Again, that's never happened for me, and according to my sales report, it didn't happen this time, either. If a KU member wants to find free reads, he or she can find them easily enough through Amazon's search bar. Granted, today Amazon is showing "over 20,000" Kindle Unlimited books, which is some pretty stiff competition. I have a hard enough time competing with nine other books on a promo site's newsletter. 

To be philosophical, What We Conceal (formerly The Apple) hasn't sold a copy in years, so one free taker is a win! No one person (or book) wants to die alone. 

The only time I ever do one of these is when I start thinking about one of my books and wondering why it went nowhere.  

After all, every one of them took more than a month to write!