#1

It was a good weekend. A couple of great things happened on Saturday. That afternoon I discovered that Next Time won another award, this time the Best Book award from PenCraft. They do a seasonal awards competition and my book won for Romance - Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Interestingly enough, I still haven’t received a notification from PenCraft yet. I had a note in my tracking spreadsheet that winners would be announced July 20th, and I found out I’d won when I checked their site. Anyway, no matter how many awards my books receive, it never gets old.

The other news came that evening. I’ve been monitoring the ranking on Amazon, as most writers do. The rankings for the US and UK bookstores are easily accessible, but I have to click through my ad manager to get to the rankings for Canada. That paid off Saturday evening when First hit #1 in the rankings for Canada’s category of Science Fiction Space Exploration. As I joked to my wife, I can now say the book is an international best-seller. All joking aside, it’s actually pretty cool. I grabbed a screenshot, of course! I don’t know what that means in actual sales. It does mean the ads have been effective and going #1 along with being in the Top 20 in the UK is pretty heady stuff.