Must-Read

This has been a good week on a couple of fronts. Next Time was included by Independent Book Review on their list of must-reads for the first half of 2024. That is incredibly cool and the book is still 11 days from release. I added links to it on the main page of this site and will definitely be using it in promo ads. The article uses the write-up from the review itself, which hasn’t gone live yet. It’s a really nice honor and adds to the positive response so far.

The other thing is that my new ads for First blew up and got lots of clicks, both in the UK and in the US. In fact, the response was the best I’ve ever had for any of the ads I’ve run on BookBub. The clicks apparently translated to sales as First made it to the top 5,000 Kindle books in the UK. Not just SF or Space Exploration, but overall Kindle books. That’s amazing. I didn’t see a corresponding rise on the US charts and it made me think something had to be wrong, like people were clicking on the ad but not buying a copy. It took me awhile but I figured it out. In the UK, every single one of the clicks took the reader to Amazon UK, and absolutely none to Apple. In the US, Canada, and Australia version of the ads, the clicks were distributed differently, with more going to Apple and very few to Amazon. Overall, I think it’s been a good week for sales, especially in the UK. Let’s get with it, Yanks!