I thought I’d better say thank you to everyone who bought and read my novel, Winternights.
It surprised me by leaping to the upper rankings in both the US and the UK charts in the horror/occult genre.
It swiftly disappeared from the rankings after its dizzying ascent. This may have had something to do with the fact that it was only free for two days.
Whatever. I really enjoyed the thrill of international fame and acclaim while it lasted and I look forward to connecting with new readers in another year or so after I have written my next book.
Thanks once again. I love you all.
I hope you are being facetious calling yourself a bestselling novelist. I see people do it on twitter when they obviously are not. It bothers me when authors feel the need to lie to their audience.
I’m surprised you have to ask the question. Unfortunately the term ‘bestselling’ has long ago ceased to have any meaning. It is not only self-published authors on Twitter who abuse the term. Publishers have been cheating the reading public with it for decades. I can legitimately claim, though, that I am an international selling author and I greatly enjoyed seeing my book ranked in the top ten of horror titles in the US and UK Amazon charts. I was also very pleased to see that the first book I sold was actually sold in Germany. It’s really great to be able to run an international business from my living room.
I am not well acquainted with you, that’s all. I wasn’t implying that you do that, but I’ve seen some people who I know are not that claim to be.
well-said, and interesting note about the first book being sold in Germany (hehe!). that international aspect of the Internet is perhaps my favourite thing about it (and the business part — but more so the ‘international’ part). one of my earliest readers was from Scotland…