Go ARC Team, Go!
Dragon Blue is slipping back down the rankings, which was to be expected. It peaked around 8K overall in the Kindle store, barely poking into one top 100 subcategory before quickly falling out. But I’m running another promo today, so maybe we’ll see a nice surge.
I really want to give a shout out to my ARC readers. I tried to thank them each personally for the reviews (if I missed anyone, sorry!). I ended up with exactly 50 readers. Of those, 23 have left reviews, which is a nearly 50% conversion rate. That’s pretty awesome. I think it’s more reasonable to expect something like 25% of your team to actually leave reviews. With the Exclusive ARC service and organic reviews, there are now 36 total on Amazon. But there are a few readers that came in right before the book was published, so we might get over 40.
My approach seemed to work reasonably well this go-round, so I’ll do the same thing for the next release. Hopefully I can double both the number of people on my team and the number of reviews. And for my readers I really want to maintain a high standard and improve if I can. One comment on Amazon struck a chord with me. The review said the central romance was too fast. That one day Miranda and Corban didn’t like each other at all, then BAM, they were in love. That’s a fair criticism, something to think about going forward. I had in my mind that I wanted their wedding night to be interrupted by the men who took his father reappearing in Xandakar. So I kind of hustled their feelings for each other along a little too fast. For future books, I’ll try to do a better job of showing the relationships evolve.
I’m still working on Switch and Bait. It’s a lot of fun. I hope my newsletter subscribers are going to like it. Meanwhile, I’m sketching out the next dragon book. I’m pretty sure it’s going to involve a lost son of Karth Wildfire, who everyone believed was dead, returning to the clan. I’d also like the main romantic relationship to be between this new character and another kind of shifter, maybe a deer or rabbit, not a prey animal. Forbidden love is almost always a good engine to drive a story, and in the world of Xandakar, dragons are not supposed to fall in love with other non-dragons. The subplot will involve the machinations of Marko and Nevra, introduced in the Epilogue of Dragon Blue. So the general shape of the story is still coming together.
Anyway, I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!
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