I had the most exciting thing happen today. I woke up, checked my Amazon book sales page the way I used to check work email in the morning back before I retired, and found I’d sold something like 12 books overnight! (After the initial publishing excitement died down, it was one or two on a good day. Still happy with that.)
When I got around to looking at Facebook, it turned out that someone had posted about my book on Linzi Day’s “Voracious Readers” group on FaceBook. I’d mentioned her Gretna Green series as something that my MC Macrina would want to add to her library’s shelf of books with sentient house tropes. (The hilarious thing is that she’d written “I’m so chuffed for Linzi!” as if I were a big deal. 🙂 I wrote a comment making it clear that it’s very much the other way around – while I was writing I happened to reread her series and learned a lot from those as well as her website and newsletter, on how the books interlock, the way she interacts with her readers, her publishing process and so on. )
I’d already got some sales and very nice comments from Linzi’s group because right after I published she had a thread over UK Bank Holiday weekend for her fans who are also writers to post their own books but this makes today my highest day of sales ever. And to put the icing on the cake, Linzi herself commented:
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