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Smashwords Summer Sale

Jul 24, 2026

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Hello all. This is the last week for the Smashwords Summer Sale, it ends on July 31. Every novel / short story I have available on Smashwords (minus Second Chances, which is currently free for those subscribed to Kindle Unlimited & is $3.99 otherwise) are currently free or 75% off. Check it out, just click…

Novel sales stats for 2012

Jan 1, 2013

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Cliff Ball

in books, christian author, christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, writing

First off, Happy New Year 2013 to everyone and a big thank you to all those out there who bought/downloaded a copy of one of my novels. I thought I’d blog again this year about how many sales/free downloads my novels had this year. My marketing/promoting consisted mostly of using Twitter, Facebook groups/pages, joining up…

Potential novels, sequels, & other scribblings

Oct 14, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, writing

When I started writing and publishing my works, I never thought I would publish more than maybe two novels. Well, now I’m up to eight novels, and setting to write my ninth. My goal this year was to write and publish at least two novels, and I did that, with three. I also thought I’d…

Sales for the year so far

Jun 1, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in books, christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, self publishing, writing

Now that it’s June, here are my sales numbers for the year so far, from regular sales to when one of my novels was in KDP Select to free giveaways. These are all from mostly just promoting online on Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of message boards. The novels are listed in order of publication,…

Sales for 2011

Jan 22, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, novels, self publishing, writing

Now that I’m pretty sure I have all the sales numbers in for all platforms, I’d like to share how many novels I sold or had downloaded last year as an independent author, to give encouragement to those that aren’t sure they can do it. I’ve been doing this for about 4 years, 1 1/2…

Stats for The Usurper in November

Dec 3, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in writing

I decided to let The Usurper go free in November (and it’s still free, no thanks to Kobo not changing the price) with the understanding that I was going to get blasted by the perpetual Negative Nellies on Amazon (or elsewhere), but I thought it would be a good way to get my novel in…

My sales for year so far

Sep 21, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in books, indie author, novels, science fiction, self publishing, writing

When I started self-publishing in 2008, I didn’t really have any kind of goals on how big of a number I wanted to reach. When I hit 100 sold by the end of 2009 without any promoting except for Facebook, I thought that was cool. When I managed to get a little over 500 sold…

Where all my novels are located

Feb 14, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in book reviews, books, writing

Dear reader, if you’d like to know where you can buy my novels, here is a comprehensive list: Out of Time, originally published through iUniverse in 2008 in paperback, now through Createspace, and a 2nd edition uploaded as e-book this year. With coupon code ZC6JYHVF get this title for 50% off from Createspace. Paperback: Createspace…

Character interview from The Usurper

Jan 8, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in writing

Syria Evans asked authors to submit interview questions for their characters. I chose Gary Jackson, and he gave the following interview (re-posted from Syriasays.com) Syria Says: How did you first meet your writer? Gary: He was very persistent, I’ll give him that. He popped up in all sorts of places, and I kept refusing to…

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