Rest Day, Charts and Other News

Rest Day, Charts and Other News

Today is a rest day in the A-Z blogging challenge, so let’s catch up on a few other matters.

You may have noticed that the blog appearance has changed. I’ve used the Chip Life theme for well over a year now, but they altered it a few days ago, and the new version no longer supports the sidebar where my book covers and other links appear.

Five’ll get you ten, someone will tell me I’m wrong about this, but if its there, I couldn’t find it, so I’ve switched to this Rusty Grunge appearance, at least for the time being.

In yesterday’s A-Z post, I spoke about The Filey Connection, and how its popularity has seen a boost just recently. For a brief time yesterday afternoon, it swapped places with The Chocolate Egg Murders, climbing into the top 10 while the Chocolate Egg dropped out. Well this morning, they’re both in there. At six o’clock, when I checked their positions, Filey stood at number 8 in the genre chart and number 808 in the overall rankings, and Chocolate Egg was at number 9 in genre and 868 in the overall rankings.

Third most popular title right now is a surprise. It’s The I-Spy Murders.

I have to confess that this is my favourite STAC Mystery, but it’s never performed as well as it might. For most of this year, it’s languished in the lower reaches of the British Detectives top 100, and actually dropped out altogether on odd occasions. It received a boost during the Crooked Cat Sale from 25th to 28th March, as did the whole series, dropped slightly when the sale ended, but it’s now picking up again, and this morning sits at number 26, after peaking at 22 last night.

As usual, I have you, the readers, to thank for the success of I-Spy and the series as a whole.

We’re back on the horse again tomorrow, with the A-Z theme, and when I’ll be talking about G for Genre Chart in more detail. For now, have a great weekend.