Sheri Ann Richerson's exotic gardening, elegant cooking, crafty creations, food preservation and animal husbandry... all on two and a half acres in Marion, Indiana!

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December 2011 Archives

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Join #homesteadchat every Thursday night on Twitter at 7pm Eastern.

Every Thursday evening at 7pm EST, I will be hosting a #homesteadchat on Twitter. You can use any tweet chat program including tweet chat at http://tweetchat.com

Be sure to include the hashtag #homesteadchat.

Tonight’s topic is on color in the winter garden.

Have a question you would like to see answered tonight, but can’t make the chat? Leave it in the comment box below this post. Questions that are not answered tonight will be addressed either through a post or You Tube video.

I hope to see you there.

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Join #homesteadchat every Thursday night on Twitter at 7pm Eastern.

Every Thursday evening at 7pm EST, I will be hosting a #homesteadchat on Twitter. You can use any tweet chat program including tweet chat at http://tweetchat.com

Be sure to include the hashtag #homesteadchat.

Tonight’s topic is on color in the winter care of livestock.

Have a question you would like to see answered tonight, but can’t make the chat? Leave it in the comment box below this post. Questions that are not answered tonight will be addressed either through a post or You Tube video.

I hope to see you there.

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Join #homesteadchat every Thursday night on Twitter at 7pm Eastern.

Every Thursday evening at 7pm EST, I will be hosting a #homesteadchat on Twitter. You can use any tweet chat program including tweet chat at http://tweetchat.com

Be sure to include the hashtag #homesteadchat.

Tonight’s topic is on color in the winter seed sowing.

Have a question you would like to see answered tonight, but can’t make the chat? Leave it in the comment box below this post. Questions that are not answered tonight will be addressed either through a post or You Tube video.

I hope to see you there.

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A screen shot of my US Sales on December 17, 2011.

December started out the way most months have since I first self-published on Amazon in January 2011. Sure, a few books sold, but nothing worth getting excited about – then it happened. Out of the blue. The miracle I had been praying for and anticipating. Books started selling – not one or two – but literally thousands! In fact, the current sales figures for December show that 6,058 books sold – most of them since that fateful day – December 9, 2011.

Now you may be wondering what changed – especially since I had barely sold over 200 books prior to this. Honestly, I don’t know. I enrolled my books in the Amazon Prime program the day before. I decided that allowing my books to be “on loan” was not a bad thing since I would still get paid – and hoped it would lead to more sales. Ironically very few books have been borrowed – instead they have sold.

My price point is 99 cents – in part because I know the economy is bad and I want people to read what I write and be able to apply that to their life. Most of my books are on gardening or self-sufficiency so I see this as my way of giving back and helping others on their path at a price almost everyone can afford. Granted I only get 35 cents per book – but it all adds up.

To say I am still in shock is an understatement. I look at my author account on Amazon. I print the screen just so I can look at it again and again. I add the sales up several times a day just to watch the numbers go up and up and up. I even post on Facebook to let my peeps know how blessed I feel to have these kinds of numbers.

So – what lies in the future? More book sales, of course. My goal is to make it into the elusive Kindle Million Seller Author Club. I want to see my name in print beside all the great authors. I want to know my books have made it into the hands of those who cherish them and hopefully pass them on to younger generations. I have a ways to go, but I am going to make it. I am finally a successful – and may I say well-known, author who has been published traditionally and chose to self-publish “just because it felt right.”

 

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Join #homesteadchat every Thursday night on Twitter at 7pm Eastern.

Every Thursday evening at 7pm EST, I will be hosting a #homesteadchat on Twitter. You can use any tweet chat program including tweet chat at http://tweetchat.com

Be sure to include the hashtag #homesteadchat.

Tonight’s topic is on color in the homemade Christmas gifts.

Have a question you would like to see answered tonight, but can’t make the chat? Leave it in the comment box below this post. Questions that are not answered tonight will be addressed either through a post or You Tube video.

I hope to see you there.

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Join #homesteadchat every Thursday night on Twitter at 7pm Eastern.

Every Thursday evening at 7pm EST, I will be hosting a #homesteadchat on Twitter. You can use any tweet chat program including tweet chat at http://tweetchat.com

Be sure to include the hashtag #homesteadchat.

Tonight’s topic is on color in the winter garden.

Have a question you would like to see answered tonight, but can’t make the chat? Leave it in the comment box below this post. Questions that are not answered tonight will be addressed either through a post or You Tube video.

I hope to see you there.

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