Brother’s Keeper, now an Amazon Bestseller!

Since wrapping up a 2 day free promo over the President’s Day weekend for both Brother’s Keeper and Loss, I’ve been anxiously waiting to learn if the titles recevied a healthy  KDP bounce.  The titles had over 30,800 free downloads, so I was hopeful.  I only found a couple of examples of higher download totals, and 10k+ downloads per title is generally the key to having success when the title reverts to paid status.

Well, Brother’s Keeper cracked the horror top 100 yesterday afternoon.  And then it started to climb.  It gained momentum by the hour, and when I turned in last night, it was #13 in horror, and #470 overall.

When I woke this morning, it had reached #7, and in the last hour, it hit #5.  I’m quite happy, but now I’m hoping my novella gets “sticky” and stays in the top 20 for a nice long stretch.  It’s weird feeling apprehensive when I have a story at the best ranking I’ve ever had.

If it weren’t for the success of Brother’s Keeper, I’d be doing backflips over the KDP bounce for Loss.  It started gaining momentum around the same time as Brother’s Keeper, and currently sits at #50 on the Amazon paid horror list.

Here’s a screencap.  If I didn’t see it myself, I don’t know if I’d believe it.

Kindle Giveaway Results: I’m Dumbfounded…

I decided the President’s Day weekend was a good time to run a giveaway on Amazon.  After listing LOSS and BROTHER’S KEEPER  as free of 48 hours, starting on Sunday, this is the result so far (for those who can’t see, the titles are #1 & 2):

That’s just the horror list.  I don’t know if releasing both titles at once is making the titles surge.  I’m sure it’s not hurting any.

Here’s the overall list (BROTHER’S KEEPER sits at #4):

LOSS is further down the list, sitting around #21 overall.  The only marketing I’ve done so far is a few emails sent to a few websites that announce giveaways.

When I did a giveaway the week of Christmas, the downloads totaled around 6200 over five days and across 5 titles.

So far, in about 30 hours, my current giveaway has totaled about 19,600 downloads.  The numbers stagger.  I don’t know what they mean.  I saw a surge in sales after my Christmas giveaway ended.  I’m cautiously optimistic about what will happen once Tuesday rolls around.

If you want your free copies, here are the link:

Brother’s Keeper:

 

Loss:

http://www.amazon.com/Loss-novella-psychological-horror-ebook/dp/B006TZ8Z4S

The Nightmare Within

The Nightmare Within.

The Nightmare Within will only be $.99 for a short time.  Get your copy today!

Spectral Inversion, my new poem, podcasted

The publisher of my upcoming story collection, Dog Horn Publishing, just started up a podcast called the Dogcast.  It features spoken word, creative noise, interviews, and much more. My poem, “Spectral Inversion” is in podcast 02 at about the 6:40 mark.  It’s free to listen, so please click through and have a look around!

http://soundcloud.com/dog-horn-publishing/dogcast-02

Yeah, I write poetry, too.  I only recently returned to the form after not producing more than a handful of poems in the last decade.  It’s a welcomed return.  It’s familiar territory, but after so many years away honing my craft with fiction, I feel like I return with a keener ear for the nuance of poetry, and with a stronger sense of imagery.  I’ve still only produced a half-dozen or so new works, but I hope to collect the ever-growing pile at some point in the near future since they all border a common theme.  The title of the volume will be named after the long-form poem I’ll write to wrap it all together.  The title is tentatively: The Scalding Pool. 

Famous Monsters of Filmland reviews Where Darkness Dwells

This is a cool review from the ultimately cool Famous Monsters of Filmland.  From reviewer Peter Schwotzer:

“Glen’s storyline was really interesting and fresh, his depiction of a small coal mining town during the Great Depression was very believable. There is a bleak atmosphere to the story as he paints a somewhat depressing picture of the town of Coal Hollow, but there is also a sense of hope, community and self worth within the characters that adds a touch of realism and depth. It is readily apparent that he did a lot of research on this time period and it definitely pays off.” 

Read the entire review at the link.

http://famousmonstersoffilmland.com/2012/02/02/book-review-where-darkness-dwells-by-glen-krisch/

Also, my awesome readers continue to send in their entries for my $200+ giveaway.  The promotion ends on February 8th, so make sure you act quickly to get on my entry list.  Details are here: http://glenkrisch.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/book-launch-week-brothers-keeper-the-200-giveaway/.  I’m from Chicago, so I’m a firm believer in stuffing the ballot box.  The more entries you have, the better!

Book Launch Week: Brother’s Keeper, the $200+ giveaway

Brother’s Keeper Book Launch Week $200+ Giveaway!

 

Win Amazon Gift Cards during the book launch week for my new novella, Brother’s Keeper.

Simply purchase Brother’s Keeper (for just $.99!) and send me an email at glenkrisch at gmail.com with a copy of your receipt. Forwarding the Amazon confirmation email works just fine.  You receive additional entries for Facebook wall-shares, Goodread adds & recommendations, tweets, blog mentions, etc. The more you spread the word, the better your odds of winning. Let me know how/where you’ve spread the word so I can keep track of your entries.  Be creative, just drop me an email after your sharing efforts.

Now for the Prizes:
4 $25 gift cards
1 additional $50 gift card if it reaches the top 50 horror
1 additional $100 gift card if it reaches the top 10 horror.
1 additional $50 for every day it remains in the top 10 horror.

So go to it!
http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Keeper-a-novella-ebook/dp/B0073WV30Y/

Can you tell I’m excited about this story! I hope you take a peek; if you like end-of-the-world stories, this one will stick with you. If you’ve read any of my work, you know I don’t follow standard cut-out plots with cardboard characters. Brother’s Keeper is no exception.

 Thanks so much for your support!

 

 

Book Launch Week: Brother’s Keeper, a novella

I wanted to have my new title available earlier today, but there was an issue with uploading it.  Well, that’s all resolved and Brother’s Keeper, a novella, is now available! 

US:

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Keeper-a-novella-ebook/dp/B0073WV30Y/

UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brothers-Keeper-a-novella-ebook/dp/B0073WV30Y/

I’m very proud of this story.  Writing the rest of the planned trilogy of novels will take up a lot of my writing time during the next year+.  But it’s time to tell this tale.  It’s been brewing in me since 1993.  That’s when, while on a college trip, we entered the town of Alexandria Missouri.  It had just been wiped off the map by the great floods that summer.  Mud streaked the remaining teetering walls of the meager downtown to the second floor windows.  You can read more about the historical context here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_of_1993

I’ve toyed with the storyline on and off since then.  The story has grown, evolved into something far greater than a devastating flood.  The events of the story now encompass the entire world and the end of civilization.  I’ve written other stories in the mythos, most notably “Gleaners” which appeared in the South African publication Something Wicked  #9.  “Gleaners” details events during the second novel in the trilogy, a book that takes place five years after the first.  An excerpt of that story, and some cool interior artwork can be found here:

http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/archives/something_wicked_9/gleaners.html

If you’d like to read the entire short story, it will be included in my upcoming short story collection, Through the Eyes of Strays, which will be published by Dog Horn Publishing (U.K.) in the Spring of 2012.

If you want to read a sample of Brother’s Keeper, I’ve posted the first chapter here:

http://glenkrisch.wordpress.com/brothers-keeper/

Can you tell I’m excited about this story!  I hope you take a peek; if you like end-of-the-world stories, this one will stick with you.  If you’ve read any of my work, you know I don’t follow standard cut-out plots with cardboard characters.  Brother’s Keeper is no exception.