Top 100…still!
Over the last eight months, my surprise everyday has been to find that both the historical fiction/historical romances and the historical fantasies from my pen have achieved Amazon Bestsellers Rank: (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) in the Amazon.co.uk store.
This has been consistent. A daily ranking popping up and down the scale between 1 and 100.
With the hist.ficts, The Gisborne Saga, it is over two categories –
> Biographical Fiction and Fiction and > Historical Romance > Medieval.
For someone who is an independently published author to crack the Top 100 amongst luminous titles like Anya Seton’s Katherine or Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, E.M Forster’s A Passage to India or Sharon Penman’s Lionheart to name just four, it’s a breathtaking and illustrious moment in time.
And then there are the historical fantasies. The same thing applies. A daily ranking jumping up and down the scale between 1 and 100. Repeatedly. Over 8 solid months! They sit neatly in:
> Fantasy > Myths & Legends > Celtic, English & Welsh
and in the case of The Shifu Cloth – > Fantasy > Myths & Legends > Asian.
On Amazon.com, it’s a slightly different story. I would have thought that being a market saturated with fantasy of all kinds, that The Chronicles or Eirie would be struggling. But no! In Mythology & Folk Tales > Folklore, they are doing the same ‘popping’ thing. Except for The Shifu Cloth which once again ducks into:
Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Myths & Legends > Asian
However, medieval historical romance/biographical fiction are hard nuts to crack in the USA. Time will tell.
But all of the above are just the spurs a writer needs. Whilst writing is a joy, even a compunction – all those clichés that every author-interview spills forth – to have a recognised rank means that somehow, one is doing the right thing by the reader.
But more than that, I have to say an enormous Top Ranked THANKYOU to the readers!!!!
However, time passes and I have the final book of The Gisborne Saga to finish. Enough revelling in rankings…
Onward and upward…
It’s a great achievement, Prue, and you should be rightly proud, as well as encouraged. Now, the thing is: After Gisborne – what?
Ann xxx
Thank you, Ann. Tentatively a book that may be called The Jew’s Daughter, about a Jewish merchant in Constantinople in the 12-13th century! It may be Ariella’s story. Ariella is Ysabel’s friend from Venezia in G3. But we will be leaving Ysabel and Gisborne far behind and geographically far away. That’s the plan, anyway. Time will tell.
Sounds like a good plan to me!
Congratulations!!!
Thank you, Herba.