UPDATE: So How Did I Do on Storycartel.com With Downloads and Reviews?

Hi everyone,

In a past post I told you about a cool service where writers can offer up their books for free downloads and readers agree to review. The website is called StoryCartel.

It’s a very well put-together site and offers great possibilities for writers to find a new audience and readers to download free books and discover new writers.

I shared my short story, The Unfinished.

My final download tally after 4 weeks was 53 downloads. See screenshot below.

So how did that translate into actual reviews? I received 1 review outside Amazon and 6 Amazon reviews. So the ratio is close to 9-1. For every nine downloads, I got a review.  Frankly, I was hoping for 50%.  More people decided to skip the review (on the honor system) than those who kept their word.

Will I use again?  Probably. I received 6 reviews! 6 more than I had prior. What type of reviews did I get?  Most were 4-5 stars. About one 3 star and one 1 star … the first one star I ever got  (from a person who didn’t get the story apparently). But I can live with that (do I have a choice?)  I also received a .cvs file of all 53 downloaders, which I added to my newsletter list.  Pretty cool.

Also, the site is still fairly new so I expect more people will find it which means more downloads and more reviews.

GOOD NEWS: My manager is receiving interests from Producers on making The Unfinished into a TV series. Finger’s crossed this will happens!

Have you used the site with different results? Share your comments below.