{"id":6132,"date":"2017-01-20T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T22:03:27","slug":"new-zimmah-chronicles-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/new-zimmah-chronicles-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zimmah Chronicles Get New Covers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6135\" src=\"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-600x313.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-600x313.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-1600x833.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-1020x531.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-630x328.jpg 630w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/newcovers-2-96x50.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nI pulled The Zimmah Chronicles, my middle grade fantasy series, off Kobo &amp; Draft2Digital &#8217;cause I&#8217;m putting it in KDP Select.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using Cupcakes vs. Brownies as a perma free, but even with 20-30 downloads a day the buy through rate has been poop. In addition on Kobo and D2D I get maybe ONE sale a month, so it&#8217;s just not worth it to be wide with middle grade books.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to adding them into KDP Select, I also re-did the titles so the books look like they are part of a series. I also re-did the audiobook and box set cover so everything matches. Now I just need to wait for all the changes to be approved and go live.<\/p>\n<p>Not this week, but soon I&#8217;ll re-do the print covers and I&#8217;ve hired someone to do the print-layout of the box set. So all in all The Zimmah Chronicles are starting to look sharp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled The Zimmah Chronicles, my middle grade fantasy series, off Kobo &amp; Draft2Digital &#8217;cause I&#8217;m putting it in KDP Select. I&#8217;ve been using Cupcakes vs. Brownies as a perma free, but even with 20-30 downloads a day the buy through rate has been poop. In addition on Kobo and D2D I get maybe ONE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zimmah-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}