Not Wade Wilson asked Shannon Messenger:

not a question, but I really can't fathom why keeper of the lost cities is not as popular as harry potter. I haven't met one person who only liked them and not loved them my friend made a joke that my other friend would still be talking about them if her house burned down. Your books are awesome?

Shannon Messenger Ha, well, for one thing, the level of success that Harry Potter reached is one of those SUPER RARE impossible things, which is why it's always held as The Standard Of Children's Book Success. So the odds of any author reaching that same level are... pretty slim. (Even the big, big, big authors haven't reached the "richer than the queen of england" status JK Rowling has, so...)

BUT, it's also important to keep in mind that Harry Potter wasn't HARRY POTTER when the series first started. From what I understand, it didn't reach the level of success we all come to associate it with until more like book 5. So while I won't be holding my breath to reach that level. What that does show is that series take time to grow. Books become popular in large part thanks to word of mouth. I know with the KEEPER books, each new release brings me a ton of new readers to the series. And the books have only been on shelves since October of 2012, so, while in some ways that's a long time, in other ways it's really not. Grow little series, grow!

And I'm so happy you love the books!

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