Success!! Reached My Goals of Selling 1k books and 100k KENP!

You may recall that last year I mapped out my markers for success, and laid them out in two rough tiers, near term and longer term. Well I am happy to report that I was able to tick off two more items off my near term list this week!

First, I achieved my goal of selling over a thousand books. I was only about 50 away or so when book 5 launched in my Jubal County Saga. So when launch day came (expect a full recap of that launch here in a day or two), I hit that in before lunchtime I believe! I know for some authors that is a piddling amount, but for me? It feels good. It feels real, real, good.

The other goal I was able to hit, was that of 100,000 pages read on kindle (KENP is the technical term). This was another goal I was pretty close to hitting, as I think I was at around 96k when the book launched. A good number of folks clearly decided to check out my books on Kindle Unlimited because of the launch, as I pretty quickly have racked up about 10k page reads in the past 4 days or so. Again, this is a number that a lot of authors would likely scoff at (I mean not really, pretty much every author I know is super supportive), but damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

I am also pretty close to having a 1k book launch. I have to decide what I consider the cut off point for a launch to be able to tell if I hit it or not though, and that will require some thought (which I will lay out in the forth coming launch recap).

So yeah, woohoo!!! Thank you all for helping to push me right along! 5/12 goals have been hit, and the sky is the limit!