Amazon UK, as at 11.10am, Friday 13th November
Kindle AH new releases
The Legacy of Saint Brendan #18
Byzantium Express #28
Kindle AH new releases
The Legacy of Saint Brendan #18
Byzantium Express #28
It's interesting that sometimes there's a correlation between a book doing well and it getting lots of likes and shares on our social media, and sometimes no correlation at all. These two didn't get much attention when posted there, but they've stayed impressively high in the charts (though I know that's not a terribly meaningful measure of sales).
Amazon UK, as at 11am, Thursday 29th October
Kindle AH new releases
Decking The Shuffle #50
(The so-called AH listings are gradually being taken over by mainstream Historical Fiction)
To the best of my knowledge, Amazon offer three alternative genres for each listing.That is interesting as with my 'Other ...' books, I was strongly told by various commentators that they must not have alternate history tags, because I did not come to a firm single conclusion, but rather offered a number from readers to select from. I recategorised them to 'History' which seemed to calm people down and did nothing to damage sales. I have often spoken of the 'genre police' and it is interesting to speculate what happens at these borderlines between different genres.
Yes, and unfortunately there's a surprisingly large Venn diagram crossover between that characteristic and the very small number of people who are willing to write Amazon reviews...Yes, I was delighted at the level 'Byzantium Express' came in at and maintained over a number of days. I think it was probably a good release date. One challenge I have found from my self-published is books is that unfortunately people often buy AH books on the basis of the title without reading the synopsis, then get disgruntled when it is different (more challenging) than they expected.