After seeing so many other books in this screen it's overwhelming to see my own in the same!
To think I believed I was done after five or so revisions.....I lost count but I think the final count is around ten. Apart from that I had to tell everyone about it but to do that I had to build the infrastructure to reach them; this blog for instance. Then I had to track down someone to make that amazing cover page you see before you. (Thanks again, Mr.Pennington!) I put out the word on Twitter and he followed me shortly afterward. In the time to come I'll commission him again to make the cover for the sequel, tentatively titled "Looming Shadow". The endless circle of writing continues!
Congrats on finally publishing your book.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThis is WONDERFUL, Brian! I am so happy for you. Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on releasing "A Mage's Power" Brian!
ReplyDeleteI released my novella a day after yours, it's interesting that we're both in our "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" lists !
Either the Amazon machine looks at genre instead of recipts or someone has an eye for brand new fantasy novels. Which do you think it is?
DeleteCongratulations on publishing "The Forever Gate"!
Thanks for the congrats!
DeleteMmm, I think Amazon looks at receipts, because I've also seen cookbooks in my 'Customers Who Bought This Item' list haha. Though it makes sense that we'd show up together, being in the same genre and all.
By the way, did you use all your KDP days up for this period yet?
I used mine for one day so far, and it gave me an amazing boost in visibility.
I haven't yet but it's on my to-do list. Promoting a book is turning out to be as time consuming as writing it.
DeleteWell, whatever you're doing to promote it, looks like you're doing pretty well so far! Ranked 563 on the entire Amazon store? Wow.. you'll have to teach me how to promote sometime as I'm pretty clueless :D
DeleteNot the entire store, just the kindle section. I'd say you're far from clueless. I pulled this from your page: "Ranked #1 in Science Fiction > Adventure on the Amazon Kindle Store, Jan. 5 and 12, 2013"
Deletehaha yeah but those were my free days -)
ReplyDeleteAnd ~500 like you have in the kindle section is awesome by the way! -) I hope the momentum keeps going for you
'free' by itself does not a number 1 make. I imagine they liked what they read and told their friends to get it while it was still free.
DeleteYes '500' is amazing. I couldn't believe it when I saw it myself. Being unknown, I kept my expectations low.
Great read! Can't wait for the next book
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