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Cover Reveal for My New Book!

Cover Reveal for my new nook, Secret Supers in Space. This is it, friends. The cover is just below.

This is the third book in my Secret Supers series. You don’t have to read them in any particular order.

Cover Reveal
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Secret Supers – click for free audiobook.

Jeremy Gentle fell flat on his face at therapy. That was normal since he had cerebral palsy. But his new superpower wasn’t normal. Then, things got weirder when his best friend Dan Elanga got a different superpower. But Dan was still blind. 

Kayla Verdera and Aubrey Wilcosky, two girls in their middle-school special ed class, discovered they too had new superpowers. Kayla was mute and needed a walker. Aubrey lost two legs and used crutches. But they were as powerful as the boys. What should the four friends do? 

Get your autographed copy here!

Cover Reveal
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Villain’s Vacation cover Click to listen.

Four disabled seventh graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.

Little do they know, the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?

You can only find out by listening to Villain’s Vacation.

Get your autographed copy here!

Cover Reveal – The New Book

Cover Reveal
Secret Supers in Space

The Secret Supers are bored out of their minds during summer vacation–until they go to Space Camp. They learn all about the space program, try out moon gravity and zero-g simulations, and practice docking with the International Space Station.

But that’s the easy part. The villains they defeated in the past are back with a diabolical plot that renders the middle schoolers’ superpowers ineffective.

Jeremy, Aubrey, Dan, and Kayla face the biggest challenge of their lives. Even if they escape the villains’ clutches, will they survive?

Pre-order this book by clicking here.

So, what do you think? Love it? Or not? Let me know either way and I’ll give you a free book!

How Would You Like A Free Copy?

Of course, you would! Just follow this easy step: Subscribe to my newsletter here.

You see, I give free books to my newsletter subscribers–including you.

My next newsletter goes our December 4th. That’s when I’ll offer this free coper

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Cover Hints! A New Book is Coming!

Villain's Vacation cover What is it like?

Cover Hints! Wait, what’s the book? Secret Supers in Space. It’s the third book in my Secret Supers series (try saying that ten times fast) that started with:

Cover Hints

Jeremy Gentle fell flat on his face at therapy. That was normal since he had cerebral palsy. But his new superpower wasn’t normal.

Then things got weirder when his best friend, Dan Elanga, got a different superpower. But Dan was still blind.

Kayla Verdera and Aubrey Wilcosky, two girls in their middle-school special ed class, discovered they too had new superpowers. Kayla was mute and needed a walker. Aubrey lost two legs and used crutches. But they were as powerful as the boys.

What should the four friends do? Jeremy knew if the word got out, it’d be a media circus. Then they started fighting crime, as the Secret Supers. Who knew a disability could be a perfect disguise? No one would ever think of disabled kids as superheroes. Then they ran into problems they never expected.

Get your autographed copy by clicking here! Or, get your copy from Amazon and pay more here.

The Book Cover Before the Cover Hints

My second book in the Secret Supers series is:

Villain's Vacation cover What is it like?
Cover Hint
Villain’s Vacation. Click to get your autographed copy!

Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.

Little do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.

Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?

You can only find out by reading the adventure ‘Villain’s Vacation’.

You can also get the book at Amazon by clicking here.

This is the same artist who did the third cover, Sean “Fuzzy” Flanagan.

The First of Three Cover Hints — Finally!

Cover Hints

This is the first cover sketch I got. It’s NOT the final cover. Fuzzy did five more sketches and then the final cover.

Click to see other covers by Sean Flanagan.

Do you want more hints?

Of course, you do!

See below.

Or, you can tell me what you think by clicking here.

Or, email me at [email protected]

Another Hint!

Here’s a piece of the background from the real final cover:

Do you want another hint?

Here it comes!

Cover Hints

This is also from the final cover. It’s part of the bottom strip. It shows the Earth in the background.

My cover reveal is coming! Subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here so you’ll be the first to see it.

You’ll also get free audiobooks and ebooks and short stories as a member of my newsletter!

When will the cover come out? My next newsletter will be November 20th. Maybe then. If not, then the next newsletter is December 4th.

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Explosive Book Sales during 2020 COVID – How?

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Explosive Book Sales during 2020 – How? In this blog post, I show you the actions I took in 2020 and how they led to more than doubling my sales.

Here’s the fourth video I made from my Youtube channel. Subscribe if you dare!

Explosive Book Sales During Year 2020

In case you forgot or didn’t read my last post, After My First Book, I Got Exponential Growth – How? let’s review my 2019 sales growth, over 100%.

Explosive Book Sales

I won’t leave you in suspense: here are the 2020 results.

Explosive Book Sales for 2020

During 2020 I went from 359 to 859 books sold! What in the world happened in 2020? Let’s review the year:

During January – New Audiobook and Explosive Growth

I published the audiobook version of my disabled 7th-grade superhero book:

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Click to listen to free sample of Secret Supers.

The audiobook proved to be so popular, I gave away over 100 review copies and used up my free audiobook codes. Don’t worry; you can still get it for free by joining Audible here.

I also began pushing all my other audiobooks. That led to many sales through the review codes I get from Audible. I get the codes for free and then Audible pays me when someone redeems them for free.

I still have a lot of audiobook codes. Get yours here.

Explosive Book Sales during March

Take a look at what happened in March.

Month Book Sales

Explosive Book Sales

The green color means the monthly sales are above average for my six years of book sales.

What’s going on? Take a look at my audiobook sales:

Explosive Book Sales

That’s 337 more audiobooks sold than in 2019! That’s half of the 139% growth. Where did the rest come from? Let’s look at ebooks.

There are another 148 ebook sales, mostly from Zombie Turkeys. Also, the rest of the Life After Life Chronicles all increased from the previous year. Then there are the sales from my two new books.

My Zombie Turkey ebook was priced at .99 and the price reduction led to new sales during 2020. Also, I changed my Amazon ad campaigns to focus on categories, not keywords. That led to me online sales than ever before.

Explosive Book Sales – Two New Books Released during 2020

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Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse
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Explosive Book Sales
Villain’s Vacation

During 2020 I released Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse on January 2, 2020 and Villain’s Vacation on August 27, 2020.

I now had a short story collection. I gave away free short stories to promote it. The book also promoted the rest of my series.

Also, I now had two books in my Secret Supers series. The sales of one book led to the sales of the other.

Two books, each in two formats, plus the new audiobook, gave me five new items to sell.

My fifth video:

Book Conventions

I had the following conventions in 2020:

ConventionDate Books Sold
Washington HS1/9/20203
PeoriaCon3/7/202017
QuadCon8/29/20209
Total29

That didn’t seem to be the source of new sales! How about print sales during 2020?

I only sold 15 more print books than 2019, probably since I only had three book conventions, compared with seven the year before

During 2021 Book Sales were up and down

I went back to book conventions. I ended up selling fewer books (731) but making more profit. I sold more of the profitable print books, but not as many ebooks.

I attribute this to the end of the lockdowns during 2021 and being able to attend more conventions. I also introduced my Square Site where I sell my autographed books, just like I do at conventions. Click here to get your autographed book now.

Get Your Free Book With Your prediction for 2022 Total Sales

How many books do you think I’ll sell during 2022? I’m at 561 so far, but I have four book events coming up. Tell me by clicking here and the closest person will get their choice of books from me in January 2023. Or you can email me at [email protected].

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Here are the previous posts in this series:

My Sixth-Year Anniversary as a Self-Published Author

What Happened After My First Book Was Published?

Let’s close with my sixth video: