Next up was debut novel Convictions in May, then second novel Heartbreaker and weird/horror fiction collection The Writing on the Wall in October. A second crime fiction collection, Show No Mercy, rounded the year off in December.
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On Tuesday, Convictions climbed into Amazon UK’s bestsellers chart and it has stayed there ever since.
Would this have happened without the option KDP Select offers, to make a book free for a period of time? Frankly, I doubt it. And while it’s possible to force a book to be free on Amazon, that’s not something I’ve ever done.
The only other book I’ve had in KDP Select so far is Show No Mercy, and while I think it did pretty well, it wasn’t nearly as successful as Convictions. I wonder if that’s the difference between a short story collection and a novel?
What is perhaps odd is that while Convictions has gone great guns in the UK, it hasn’t fared so well on Amazon.com. Maybe it is too British a book and doesn’t travel well.
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Gone Bad:
#10 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Anthologies
Heartbreaker:
#23 in Books > Fiction > Biographical Fiction
The Writing on the Wall:
#28 in Books > Fiction > Horror > Anthologies
Show No Mercy:
#1 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Anthologies
And Show No Mercy, which was Blasted Heathens daily #broth the other day, is free on Amazon today in the UK and the US.
One thing I do wonder is whether it is possible to repeat the success of Convictions in the UK with another book on KDP Select. Right now, I don’t know, but I’m tempted to find out. I’ll keep you posted …