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I’ve mentioned this before, and here goes again – sales are so precious for indie authors. That’s why knowing the worst day of the month for book sales might help other writers plan advertising campaigns and the like.   A bit of background – in 2025 I kept a close eye on all sales activities for my books and am now in a position to reveal the findings. I’ve already done the best date in the month for book sales , so here are the top five worst for me, Jon Lymon, horror and da

Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS THREEVE by Jon Lymon On the worst day of Christmas, a true ghost gives to Nick Crosby the chance to start over and over and over. Technology Consultant Nick Crosby is hiding a guilty secret. No, two guilty secrets. But he’s determined

In an ideal world, no date would be the worst date in the month for KENP page reads.   Every day would yield reads aplenty from Kindle Unlimited subscribers who just can’t get enough of your words.   Alack, only JK Rowling is likely to experience such joy and quite rightly for her Harry Potter series deserves all the plaudits it gets.   For the rest of us, we have to cherish every page read we get. Even if it’s a non-earning 1 page read (of which I’ve received one today for

Call me presumptuous ("Hello, Presumptuous") I would have thought that the end of the month would be party time in terms of Amazon free book offers. People grasping the chance to line up new books for a new month. But hold your horses, or any other four-legged beast you have to hand.   The 30 th  and 31 st of each month proved to be the worst in terms of generating interest in freebie book giveaways on Amazon.   These are the findings of 2025, a year in which I tracked the p

Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: LAST WRITER SITTING by Jon Lymon What’s a man to do when a machine steals his job? Sit back and let it happen or stand up and fight? Last Writing Sitting tells the all too familiar story of a copywriter whose livelihood is taken away by artificial intellige

A sale, a sale. My Kingdom for a sale.   As every indie author will tell you, there’s a real sense of wanting to reach out and hug and even kiss every person who buys one of your books.   There are millions of books out there, many backed by the promoting might of big publishing houses. So when someone chooses to invest in your indie book ahead of all the others they could have chosen, it’s quite a moment.   I’ve already featured a post about the best months of the year for b

When it comes to the month of the year that registered the fewest KENP page reads for Jon Lymon books in 2025, the summer months proved that Lymon’s tales of dark comedy and horror are not finding their way into people’s suitcases.   My books are not taking to the skies or getting filled with sand on the world’s beaches. And people aren’t using their Kindle Unlimited subscriptions to read my works.   I know all this because the worst 3 months of the year for KENP page reads f

As an indie author, I, Jon Lymon, like to make my books available for free to readers, so anyone who hasn’t read my stuff before can discover how utterly brilliant and witty I am. Ahem!   And in 2025, I made at least one of my books available for free nearly every day of the year. This has enabled me to gather data about which months of the year are best for Amazon free book offers, and which are worst.   I’ve already looked at the former in another blog post, so here’s a lo

What day of the week was worst for book sales for indie author Jon Lymon in 2025?   I’m not going to keep you in suspense for this one as there was a clear winner, or loser, whichever way you look at it.   The worst day for indie book sales in 2025 was THURSDAYS.   And that day also put in a bad performance when it came to the worst day of the week for KENP Page reads. With a whole year of data to draw on, it’s clear there’s something about Thursdays that’s a non-reading day

What’s the worst day of the week for Amazon KENP Page reads?   In 2025, a year when I had at least 1 book available for KENP all year, there was a day of the week that was by far the worst for accumulating page reads.   And it wasn’t even close.   This day was so far behind all the others.   And that day was THURSDAYS.   What is it about Thursdays that makes it so unappealing for readers to make use of their Kindle Unlimited subscription when it comes to Jon Lymon books?   Wh

Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: FLYING ANT DAY by Jon Lymon It’s 2030, and junior eco-warrior extremists are a year into their first term as the government of the First World - formerly known as Northern Europe. Elected on a promise to put the needs of a dying planet before the wellbeing o

KEY SUMMARY • What’s the worst day of the week for Amazon Free Book Offers? You’re about to find out.   All through 2025, I offered at least one of my books for free almost every day of the year, so I’ve got some findings that may be of interest to other indie writers looking for any insights that could help increase their profile and sales.   When it comes to giveaways, there was an outcome I found surprising. The day of the week in which I achieved the fewest giveaways wa

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was carried out manually, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used w

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when y

Enjoy this free excerpt of Last Night at The Stairways on me! When you’re a teenager at war with yourself, the first casualty isn’t the truth. It’s your mother. She’s the one on the front line, witnessing first-hand your self-doubt turn to self-hate. She’ll see you off your food and on your bed for hours on end, staring out of the window, wishing you were someone else somewhere else. She’ll see your tears and you’ll swear her to secrecy with a ‘Please don’t tell Dad.’ And she

KEY TAKEAWAYS Discover which day of the week was best for book sales for dark comedy and horror author Jon Lymon in 2025  I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threev e. Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The trac

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was carried out manually, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used

Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: THE ZOMBIE COP by Jon Lymon Having escaped from Bluff Cove, the epicentre of an alien invasion, criminal conspiracy and zombie uprising, PC Jake Rodwell finds his daughter, Emily, in the clutches of her grandparents who’ve been hiding a dark secret. Before

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when y

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used wh