The Faithless sale will end shortly after 8am today, but the main results are already in.
I was surprised that Faithless proved more popular than Singular, but also very pleased. It was most successful in the US, where it reached No.1 on the Hard Science Fiction and First Contact Science Fiction sub-categories, and the Top five on Science Fiction overall.
The real news is that it also reached no. 1 on the Short Stories category, a category on the same level as Genre Fiction, Science Fiction’s parent, on Amazon. This really made a difference to the downloads.
It may also have been the contrast, since much of the rest of the list at the time was romance or had pale coloured covers, and Faithless was sitting there at the top with a giant red sun and a flooded city.
Faithless also picked up interest in the UK with Top Ten positions on the Hard Science Fiction and First Contact Science Fiction sub-categories, and was not doing badly in Canada and Germany, despite the language barrier. Faithless did manage one thing I have never seen before on Amazon: copies were downloaded in every Amazon region.
Overall it was a very successful run, and it has given me a kick to get back to writing.
To follow up, Inverted is back with the editor for a second review (it could be released now but the extra tweaks will make it a stronger story). Singular will be on 99cent sale until the 8th October – which should let you guess when Inverted is likely to be released.
