Thank you for my best launch ever! (Patreon)

The normal pattern for book series is that the first book sells the most and each sequel sells less. Well, TWC has been doing the reverse: the first book didn't sell terribly well, but each subsequent book has done a little better. Of course the first book has still sold the most total, but new readers in between books have pushed the launches higher and higher.

Wakespire was an exception to that trend, which worried me, but now I'm inclined to attribute that to the different promotional methods I was trying. Deathseed has not just done better, it has blown past my previous records, peaking here on the Amazon rankings:

This might not be much to the big deal authors, but it's huge for me! Even though the competition only gets tougher from here, it no longer seems unfathomable that one day I'll have a book hit the top 100 on Amazon.

Of course, part of this success should be credited to the massive free sale, which gave out more than 34,000 free books. I managed to peak relatively high on the free charts as well:

Given that this promotion caused a measurable boost to Deathseed's sales, I may not be able to repeat this performance next book. Still, I feel encouraged that TWC is still showing strong interest and hope that people will be on board for everything I have planned in this series!

Because ultimately, the various tactics and promotion that I try are secondary to the real source of success for the series: the readers who care about the story. Thank you all so much for supporting me in this career. ^-^

The best thanks I have to offer would be chapters of the next book, but Skyvenom isn't quite ready yet. We're getting close, however! Just need to recover from the launch and put in a little more editing work.