Everyday Monsters Kindle Scout Campaign - Day 1

Yesterday was the first day of my book, Everyday Monster's Kindle Scout campaign, (to nominate the book go HERE!!) and I can see how this could get pretty addictive, yet nerve-wracking. It helps to have really no idea whatsoever how the Kindle Scout team selects books, aside from actually reading them and deciding from there. I've done the best I could on Everyday Monsters before submitting it, so I'm not really stressing the stats, at least on day 1.

My total stats for yesterday are 86 total campaign page views (40% of which came from external links and 60% came from the Kindle Scout page itself), and 4 hours on the Hot & Trending list. All of the stats are updated 1 day at a time, 1 day behind, so although today is day 2 of the campaign, I won't see any information from today's activity until tomorrow morning. Which is fine.

The only thing I wish I knew was how many people actually nominated it yesterday, as several of my Facebook friends said that they clicked the magic button. But I don't see a spot for that, so I'll have to ask around and see if I can access that information in another way. I know a lot of other authors get a lot better numbers on the Hot & Trending page for multiple days in a row, but I have no idea how most of them do on Day 1. I've gotten several compliments on my cover so far though, so that's reassuring. 

Ahh, marketing. Yesterday I put my link up on my personal Facebook page, my author page and several groups that I'm part of. One of them is a women's-empowerment make-up and beauty group (because trust me, I need all of the help I can get. These wonderful ladies helped me choose my author profile picture out of several option that I loved from a photoshoot by Lily June Photography here in Houston).  Like 10 of these ladies said that they nominated it for me, so a big THANK YOU to them. I also shared it on a geeky page just for moms, and several of my friends shared it on their personal pages as well, for which I also owe them a big THANKS!!!

So I didn't do much right out of the gate, but I'm really excited to see that as of 8:30 am CST it's still listed on the Scout website as "Hot" - woo hoo! This is super exciting for me. I plan to book something on Fiverr in the next few days to try to keep the momentum going, and of course keep sharing on Facebook and Google+ next. I'll probably do Google + today, but I didn't want to exhaust my meager list of contacts right out of the gate. I've read several times that this 30 day campaign is a marathon - not a sprint - and to pace yourself accordingly. 

Thanks for reading, and I hope I have more great news tomorrow!