Back Story: Part Two

January 2010, I joined inkpop. four days later, I uploaded The Assassin onto it. A few hours later, I received my first comment from a user named MIC (still a lovely lady to this day). She liked the book! At the time, MIC was the top trendsetter (Ie, when she picked a book, she had the most influence and many people followed her). and she added The Assassin to her pick list.

Over ten months, I edited and revised, swapped and commented on other stories, all for my book. By July 2010, I was in the top forty books. It was easy to jump high, but the closer and closer you got to the top, the harder it was to move places. It took more picks to get you there.

By August, I was determined to get into the top picks by the end of the year. I had lots of help from a dear friend at the time, Evie. She helped edit and she helped promote me. While I was in school, she was watching my numbers (remember, it was blocked at school!) and editing my book.

September came and I finally cracked the top ten. That's when panic mode hit. If I didn't break the top five that month, I'd be an automatic shoo-in for October. The editing began to consume my soul. My flash drive became my best friend as I was editing during free time at school (aka, astronomy class).

 

Finally, October. Ten months later and I popped in at #3. I had the top mystery book on the whole entire website.

October was a month full of ups and downs. Half of my other top five fellow ladies weren't even on the website and I was constantly changing spots. For a while, I was seriously scared that I would fall out of the top five. It was an emotional month.

Halloween was a Monday night that year. I beg and pleaded for my parents to let me stay up until 11, when the clock would flip over on the website and I would get my star...