End of Summer Free Books!

It time for an end of Summer freebee for my eBooks! If you are on Amazon or have a Kindle, my eBooks will be free on the following dates:

Infinite Divergence at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V5JQZG8, is free from August 30, 2019 to September 3, 2019.

Infinite Divergence: Good Intentions at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FL92NAY, is free from September 2, 2019 to September 6, 2019

Infinite Divergence: Finding Purpose at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073ZPCTCX, is free from September 5, 2019 to September 9, 2019

Society6 Store Completed!

I have finally finished getting all my work on to Society6!

I recommend starting on this page: https://society6.com/ericpauker/collection

All my works are in three collections. Each item in a collection links to a print, but the other product can be found on a prints page by scrolling down.

If you just want to browse through random works on random products, then check out this page: https://society6.com/ericpauker

It took a couple weeks longer than I hoped because finding a way to render my fractal flames at the resolution the site required took much longer than I thought it would.

New Store at Society6

Well it looks like I have gone full in on this online art selling thing. I now have a store at Society6 to sell my work. It is like RedBubble, but they have a lot more stuff you can put your work on. They also have larger merchandise available such as wall hangings, tapestries, shower curtains, etc.

I recommend looking at my collections here to find a specific piece of art.

If you are interested in a specific type of item, then you can browse through all my stuff here.

Full Blown RedBubble Store

Big news, I have decided to use my RedBubble store to sell my artwork and photographs, so it is a real store now, not just an Infinite Divergence promotion spot. No one has to worry about me working on my books, those are still my number one priority. This new store won’t be taking any time away from my writing.

I’ve been creating digital art for decades and never had any way to easily sell it until I found RedBubble. Most of the work is re-rendering everything at an extremely high resolution. Getting it into the store only take a few clicks of the mouse once I have the new rendering.

My profile can be found at https://www.redbubble.com/people/EricPauker/portfolio. On my profile page you can either click on one of the images to see what items are available for it, or browse through specific product type under the ‘Available Products’ menu on the left side of the page.

Merchandise

I have started creating some promotional merchandise for my Infinite Divergence series of books. The first item is the t-shirt shown below. It is available on Amazon or RedBubble.

I am in the process of creating more t-shirts as well as some other items. When they are available I will make a post.

Still Here

I am still writing the fourth book, which is why this blog hasn’t had any posts for a while. When I am working on a book I am almost completely focused on it and tend to forget about other things like this blog.

A while back I posted a rant about Amazon opening up their ad system to everyone, including the big publishers. The situation hasn’t changed and it seems to be convincing many self published authors who worked exclusively with them to give up writing since their ads don’t get shown and their sales have disappeared. It’s a shame Amazon has abandoned all the authors who built the Kindle to what it is today in preference of large companies who will never be as dedicated to Amazon as the self publishers were. I wonder if the Kindle will survive when there are no longer millions of authors offering up their books for all Kindle owners to read for free.

I have been running a single category ads on Amazon to see if there is any difference in what it costs to run ads for any particular type of book. What I have found is that the average bid to get an ad impression that amazon shows when creating an ad is NOT what is needed to actually get the ad to show. It appears to be the average of what everyone has bid, not the average of the winning bids. In every category Amazon shows an average bid of between 15 and 25 cents. The reality is that to get a winning bid I have to make it anywhere from 30 to 50 cents.

A little math shows that this will prevent any author from making money using Amazons ad system. For example: on a good month I can make one sale for every one hundred clicks. If each click is costing me 30 cents, then to get that sale I have to spent 30 dollars on clicks. I would need to charge around 35 dollars for my books to make any money. The most expensive science fiction book I could find was 24 dollars and that was for a hard cover printed book by a well known author.