Top 10 in Epic Fantasy!

Top 10 in Epic Fantasy!

This week I ran a Promotion that placed Orcblood Legacy: Honor for free (e-Book only) to get the book out to a wider audience. At first, I didn’t have too many expectations for moving up in Amazon’s Best Seller Rankings and just aimed for the added exposure and to generate more readers.

After a few hours, the results started to come in and the book started to rocket through the ranks pretty rapidly due to the number of downloads over a short period of time (Amazon’s Best Seller algorithm is a bit unique). By the time Orcblood Legacy: Honor hit #100 in Epic Fantasy, I was really ecstatic, as Amazon displays the Top 100 (50 per page, so 2nd page) per Category, split between Paid vs Free. As this was a Free promotion, my book was switched to the Free section temporarily and competed against only other Free titles.

I started keeping an eye on the Rankings as it started creeping higher up the ladder and soon I was within Top 50 and on the first page – already much higher than I expected to reach.

Keeping the excitement, I watched the progress continue to go down and tagged increments on my Facebook post. Going from Top 100, to Top 50, to Top 25, and after a long, nail-biting period of time (about two days, impatience is a weakness) Orcblood Legacy: Honor finally reached TOP 10 in Epic Fantasy (and #13 in Sword & Sorcery), as well as within the Top 1000 for all Free eBooks in the Kindle Store.

I don’t think I’ll get any higher as the promotion is ending in just a few hours and I’ll be switched back to the Paid category. But I’m really happy with reaching the goal of Top 10 and managed to pick up quite a new handful of readers who will hopefully enjoy the novel and look forward to Book Two.

For anyone who picked up the book during the promotion (or before/after), I greatly appreciate your interest and support. Please leave a review on Amazon if you enjoyed the book, I’d love to hear from you and reviews help other readers make the decision to pick up the book as well. (Yuck, shameful plug – I don’t like doing that)

So, a massive thank you from me and Fangdarr, who is always glad to have more spectators as he chops his way through foes. Book Two is coming soon!