Last weekend I offered Rathbone Kydd... for free
via Amazon. I had much support from some wonderful people I’ve befriended on
Twitter. I tweeted, they retweeted; they tweeted, I retweeted. Using my secondary
Twitter ID I retweeted their retweets and tweeted new tweets which they and my
primary ID later retweeted.
There was a lot of tweeting and retweeting.
What a pain.
Amazon terms and conditions prevent me from
giving full details of how many were shifted but the upshot is that several
hundreds of copies are now in circulation – marginally more in the US than the
UK – and a whole fifteen copies in Germany (sorry Amazon, too precise?). I even
made it into the top three FREE of the SciFi – Mystery/Thrillers and SciFi
– High Tech categories in
the UK and US.
Then it was over. Obscurity ensued.
BUT there is light: in the UK I have made
it into the Top 100 PAID of both of these categories. It’s not a constant
listing, but I have occupied the list for four out of five days, dropping out
on Friday and popping back in today (Saturday).
Terry Tyler |
At this point I would like to thank my most ardent
and unpaid publicist, a certain Terry Tyler, who actually bought a copy of RathboneKydd... when he was first unleashed and seems to have fallen in love with him! Ms
Tyler has been the single most helpful person in pushing Rathbone into the
world. Not only has she written a truly wonderful review of the book on Amazon,
but Terry has also tweeted about the book and listed it in her top four indie-book reads of the year on her blog. This is especially gratifying, as
Terry is the brilliant author – take a few minutes to check out her books on
her Amazon author page. Note the masses of 5 Star reviews for her four published books. I especially loved Dream On,
and You Wish was brilliant, too. I shall soon be buying the
others.
You can find Terry Tyler on her blog, on Twitter - @TerryTyler4, on her Amazon Author Page, on Goodreads, and on Facebook.