Music in My Fingertips

Today's title (Music in My Fingertips) is the only way I can describe the past few days, because my fingers are dancing across the keys...

I've popped out chapter after chapter, and now I'm up to 66% of my word goal. I've been working on this project for about 5 days, so that's pretty rapid progress. Though, I have to say, once an idea solidifies in my head, it's only a matter of getting it down, then editing up to a nice, clean polish.

I'm really excited about this part of my writing career. I'm trying something a little different than where I'd thought I'd be, and I feel like I am excelling at it. I've gotten positive feedback on my story, so far, a definite interest in the main character and some side characters. There's so much room for me to keep writing... it's really nice.

If everything falls into place, this story will be available on March 10th. That leaves me 9 days to finish up 7k words and edit... but as I'm a rolling editor, I'm not terribly concerned about it. I -am- worried about pushing my cover artist too hard. He's a great guy and I keep dumping cover concepts on his head, eh he he... But if things don't work out then I'll be aiming for March 17th.

Everyone writes at a different pace, I happen to write pretty concisely. (I've also had 22 years of practice, prior to actually finishing a story) So, I hope you won't let my pace deter you, and in a week or two, you'll pick up a copy of Cheater's Pass. (only $.99! You can afford that, to try out my YA episodic adventure!) Then, if it's really bad, you can come here and rant, or if it's good, you can come here and rant. Really, you get to rant either way, so why not give it a try? $.99 for a rant! Not bad!

Back to work tomorrow and I'm bound and determined to actually GO!

Creep Creep Creep

I have steadily watched my Amazon rank creeping along until it is now over 118,000. This makes me a little sad, as I sit in my computer chair and say, "Go on, little book! You can do it, make me proud!"

On Smashwords, I had over 50 views of my product page, but 1 purchase and about 8 sample downloads. I am starting to wonder if my $3.99 price point is pushing away potential readers, newbie author, yadda yadda yadda (anyone on the indie circuit has heard it a million times).

Amazon doesn't provide any data on downloaded samples, so I don't really know how much traffic is being driven there - same with B&N.

So I'll put it out there, to my faithful readers - should I take a hit? Try the $2.99 point, or even the dreaded $.99?

I sent out a bunch of e-mails today for potential reviews/blog tour/guest post chicanery.

If it were anyone else, I would probably do the logical thing and say, "Take the hit!" But please, I need a good smack in the face on this one - what do you guys think?

P.S.: So much for keeping cool about the whole thing :P