But then things started to pick up and by the time we self - published Catch Your Death in May 2011,
Killing Cupid was in the top 100 on Amazon.co.uk.
He has also co-written various crime novels with Louise Voss such as
Killing Cupid (2011) and The Blissfully Dead (2015).
On
Killing Cupid, I think it was pretty simple: «
Killing Cupid, a psychological thriller»: nothing fancy, really.
This was back in 2001, and
Killing Cupid was optioned by the BBC but we didn't manage to get a publishing deal for it.
We released Catch Your Death around 3 - 4 months after
Killing Cupid, as
Killing Cupid was climbing into the top 100.
We put
Killing Cupid out in February 2011, and as Louise predicted we sold around 4 copies on our first day, to people that we knew... But then I became completely obsessed about trying to sell it.
We hand - sold every copy of
Killing Cupid in the first 3 - 4 months: every single sale was hard work.
LOUISE: Yes, I think the problem with
Killing Cupid was a genre one.
Authors of psychological thrillers including Forward Slash and
Killing Cupid plus No. 1 Kindle bestsellers Catch Your Death and The Magpies.
There is no secret for this part, as Mark Edwards explains: «We hand - sold every copy of
Killing Cupid in the first 3 - 4 months: every single sale was hard work.»
Voss and Edwards» two e-books have achieved combined sales of more than 30,000, with Catch Your Death now selling an average of 1,000 copies a day and
Killing Cupid 500.
«We rewrote the blurb for
Killing Cupid to try to make it a lot more commercial and straightforward and within an hour sales doubled,» she says.
Not exact matches
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