Guest Blogger: Stacey Cochran

Let's all welcome author Stacey Cochran to the Sphagnum Patch! Woo! He's here to tell you all a little bit about his newest book, CLAWS, and offer a little insight into how it's doing via Kindle, an exciting new distribution medium for all us writers, especially those who choose to self-publish. Feel free to ask him questions about his experience with getting his book out there and his road to successful author-dom.




Hey, Mitch, thanks so much for inviting to guest blog at your place about the release of my novel CLAWS. I am wrapping up a 45-day blog tour to promote the novel and yours is the second to last place I’m visiting on this tour.

I have had a blast!

CLAWS is a mountain lion version of Jaws set in Arizona. The main character is a wildlife biologist at the University of Arizona who gets drawn into a police investigation when two of her brightest students are found dead one morning on a Tucson golf course. Dr. Rippard suspects that they were killed by a large mountain lion, but her assessment draws her into conflict with the resort’s owner and with local politicians.

All total I’ve sold over 1,500 copies in the past few weeks, and because of the added publicity, my previous novel The Colorado Sequence started suddenly selling very well (almost 2,000 copies in the past few weeks). While these aren’t New York Times kind’a numbers, it’s by far the best I’ve done in my career to date, and it got me onto a bunch of Amazon Kindle bestseller lists.

Almost 97% of the sales have been on Amazon Kindle.

The visibility and momentum has been a lot of fun, and I’m inspired to work on the sequel.