A Race? Or a Sound Thrashing?

 

This week, sales of The Girl Who Ran With Horses caught up with sales of The Summoning Fire. And then passed them.
 
To put it another way: It took less than a month for The Girl Who Ran With Horses to match and then exceed sales of The Summoning Fire–which had a 2 month head start.
 
I'd like to think that the two books will get locked in a neck-to-neck, dead-heat of a race. Maybe even a horse race. Ahem.
 
Odds are, though, little Stevie is going to give big, bad Reese one hell of an asskicking… At least in the short term.
 
I think The Summoning Fire is still trying to find its market, while The Girl Who Ran With Horses has a more well-defined market (and has both "girl" and "horses" in its title; how brilliant was that?). These are still the early days of my indie writing career, though. Over the months and years to come, the two books might even out with neither girl nor woman a clear "winner". I'm looking forward to finding out.
 
For those who like details:

The Summoning Fire – 24 copies (6 paperback, 18 ebook) since 28 September  2010
The Girl Who Ran With Horses – 28 copies (22 paperback, 6 ebook) since 29 November 2010

 
So, yeah, neither of them is a "bestseller" yet. Stay tuned, though…
 
-David