I spent most of the day alternately clearing off the driveway, playing with my son and watching superhero-themed cartoons on Hulu and Netflix while burning up Twitter and making Gene’o’s life complicated on #SundayBlogShare.  My kid has a weird approach to TV lately; he wants it on all the time but most of the time when it is on he’s actually doing something else.  Weirdly, the second an episode is over he’ll still demand that another one be started even if he wasn’t paying any attention to the episode that just ended.

So, yeah: all in all, a good Sunday.  I have no intention of watching the Super Bowl, which I think has already started, but it may well end up on the TV at some point this evening by accident and I’m not going to flee the room or anything like that.  There’s no school tomorrow on account of what ended up being sixteen inches of snow in the deep part of the yard and twelve on the light side.  And it hasn’t stopped, either, so we might be looking at 18-20″ by tomorrow morning once the blowing around is finished.  We might lose Tuesday but at this point I doubt it; the snow should be done falling by tomorrow so the controlling factor will be getting all school lots and walkways cleared.  That took an extra day when it happened last year.  We’ll see.

Also: January is over, which means that it’s time to assess what a month of having Skylights on KDP Select has done for sales.  Non-writer-folk, feel free to head for the door unless you enjoy my number nerdery.  🙂

That’s the 30 days since KDP Select.  It doesn’t look like much, I know, but by my standards this is actually pretty damn good– two days of more than one sale, one place where there were actually sales two days in a row (!!!) and just that one stretch at the end where I went several days with no sales at all.  A weird fact: I don’t know if Amazon has changed how they report their KDP sales away from the at least quasi real-time reporting they had before, but it’s been at least a couple of weeks since I made a sale, either on Amazon or Smashwords, while I was awake.  I can’t explain that.  Everything increments in the dead of night now.

Here, for the record, is what I’m comparing January to.  This is the last 90 days:

You can see that the last 30 days represent a clear improvement over the previous 60 days even if I’m still not exactly burning up the charts.  And, of course, this graph doesn’t represent all of my sales.  I know this next bit is completely unreadable; click for actual legibility:

Note a couple of things: One, more days with sales than without, even counting the dry spell at Amazon during the end of the month.  Two, an average of more than one sale a day.  Well, okay, “download,” since Benevolence Archives is free at Smashwords.   But moving copies of the books is still my focus here, not making money.  That will come with time.  And I did actually sell a few copies of Archives at Amazon, a fact that I attribute entirely to KDP Select juicing my sales.  I just hope the trend continues through February; I did sell a book today, making it a very rare two-day-in-a-row sale.  Woo!

ALSO! Two announcements: one, the ebook cover with finalized colors and text and everything will be debuting tomorrow.  Also, Skylights will be going on sale (not free– on sale— next week.  I’m trying out Amazon’s “Kindle Countdown Deal.”  Details tomorrow.

Enjoy the footballery, y’all.