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Anna Faversham: Hide in Time - Amazon #1 Time Travel Romance 0.99
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May 06, 2015 03:20AM
None in my queue. I only get a book when I'm ready to read it. It requires discipline, I can tell you!
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Kath wrote: "None in my queue. I only get a book when I'm ready to read it. It requires discipline, I can tell you!"Have I got the maths right? If this reader reads one book per month, with 93,147 books, she would have to live 7,762 years and three months. Bet my book is last on her list!!
Julia wrote: "Have I got the maths right? If this reader reads one book per month, with 93,147 books, she would have to live 7,762 years and three months. Bet my book is last on her list!! .."remember this assumes you've disabled her wi-fi
But I wouldn't bother, she never leaves reviews anyway ;-)
Kath wrote: "None in my queue. I only get a book when I'm ready to read it. It requires discipline, I can tell you!"Good on yer, Kath! We would expect nothing less.
Jim wrote: "Julia wrote: "Have I got the maths right? If this reader reads one book per month, with 93,147 books, she would have to live 7,762 years and three months. Bet my book is last on her list!! .."rem..."
Oh but she does, Jim. Average rating of 4.67 and 211 reviews, which is many more than I have managed. Kath's crown is safe while there are slow readers/reviewers like me around.
Or, Jim, is there more than one person with my book on their 90,000+ list?
Imagine how I'll feel if she reviews mine - out of 93,147. Dream on, Anna.
If you've enjoyed some of the excerpts from Hide in Time in this thread (if you can find them!) then you might like to know that it is now reduced to 99p/99c for a short while.
Hide in Time is a very good book, I read it recently and its a bargain at 99p/99c
Thank you, Kevin! So pleased you enjoyed it.
Hide in TimeCurrently 99p or world wide equivalent, Hide in Time will return to its usual price of £1.99 or equivalent some time on Friday 17th July.
I'll let someone else do the talking: here is the latest review on Amazon UK:
"What a beautifully written book. I instantly fell in love with the characters and cared about what happened to them. I loved the history, the little gems of information which sent me off to research further and the concept of the story. I found it believable even though it’s a work of imagination and fiction. Hide in Time is a must read for all those looking for a well written book in which to lose oneself. Highly recommended."
Good luck with your promotion Anna. :)
Thank you, Heather. I know it's always better to pay 99p than £1.99p!
Even £1.99 isn't expensive though. Good luck, Anna.
Thanks to Tim blowing off his dust, my thread is now covered in it, so I've had to pick it up and shake it out.In case anyone in this group has not yet heard (ahem) of my Time Travel book, Hide in Time here's an excerpt so you can see what it's like.
Here's the opening few paragraphs:
"Have you ever regretted something and wished you could put it right? Laura has and she did but it nearly cost her life.
July 1814
“You could not be further from the truth, Laura.”
“I have irrefutable evidence; it is no longer hearsay.”
Her course of action was clear: she would delay not a moment more. The man in whom she had invested all her hopes for the future must now become her past. Adam sat astride his chestnut stallion. His eyes never left hers not even when he dismounted and flung the reins to his approaching groom.
Laura turned away, gathered the silk shawl around her shoulders, the one he had given her, and hurried towards the house. He followed, caught hold of her hand, and spun her around. One last look; she would allow herself a final indulgent gaze at the man she had once thought noble.
She raised her eyes from his black riding boots, focused on the velvet collar where his dark hair curled as it skimmed his white shirt, and felt a pang of unreasonable jealousy for she would never touch that hair again. She hesitated, then glanced up. His eloquent eyes would haunt her until…"
Here's what Louisa (a Goodreads member) messaged me:
"When a book allows me to become one of the characters....aahhhh, perfection!
I'm an equal opportunity duster-upper! ;)
where there's muck there's brass and don't thee forget it!
aren't we all save Patti who found it long ago and blew it on coffee and bacon :-)
Heather wrote: "A good opening Anna. :)"Thank you, Heather.
A bacon sandwich is very hard to beat, eh, Jim?
I've just had a freebie offer of One Dark Night for 3 days. I think it increased interest for KU/KOLL but it's too soon to evaluate whether all the effort that goes into these things is worth it!
I'm not sure what the prevailing thinking is on frees. But I'm very grateful to the person who kicked me into doing it - better than doing nothing whatever way it turns out!
I did a free weekend back in the Spring. It shifted around 700 units, which got me nothing in terms of reviews, but it did boost sales across the board for about 6 weeks afterwards. So it was worth it from that point of view.I'm in no hurry to do it again though, cos i think it sets up an expectation of free/heavy discounts if the reader just waits for a bit, and that's unhealthy.
Good to hear about your sales boost, Tim. I'll start hoping!No reviews? Drat. That's something that we could wish for from freebies. Good ones, of course.
Yes, I agree about not doing a freebie frequently. This was my first for One Dark Night which has just passed its first anniversary - I forgot to shout and celebrate.
I gained 1 review after the 6 week tail was over. Of course that could have come from a freebie, there's no way of telling. But between the cost of advertising and the lost income on 700 books, that was an expensive review!Yay for One Dark Night's birthday!!! :)
I'd love a six week tail trailing around behind.5 sales today, following the freebie rise, have produced 60,000 or so in the US charts, that's about a 450,000 rise, so Happy belated Birthday ODN!
Yes it was great while it lasted. :)
Thought I'd defy gravity and put your thread above Tim's ;~)Oh! Happy birthday to your book too.
ODN thanks you for your kind wishes, David, and is thankful she's survived.Now what can I blame all this dust on! I shall either have to get the duster out (blow that for a lark - I'm on holiday) or shove Tim up there to take the blame.
Blame is my middle name. Allegedly.
Tim wrote: "Blame is my middle name. Allegedly."And your surname is Everyone-Else.
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Tim wrote: "Blame is my middle name. Allegedly."And your surname is Everyone-Else."
Double-barrelled, cos I'm posh.
You hide it well.
Despite the thunderstorms, one is going to wear one's sunglasses 'cos one is on holiday and one doesn't want to see Tim's dust.
or become as the dust beneath his feet....
That's not dust, it's the ground-up bones of my victims. Mwahahahahahahahaha.Ahem.
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "You hide it well."Posh on the inside, anyhow.
Tim wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "You hide it well."Tim wrote: Posh on the inside, anyhow."
Inside? Oh there is more to you than meets the eye then?
I've got my duster out now and cleared up around here so everyone can see the stupendous bargain I'm offering in a brand new post.
KCD Alert:
99p/99c/$1.99 until Tuesday, 1st September
Time Travel Romance Mystery Thriller(!) - 1815/2009
"This author wrote such an intriguing story with great characters and really draws her readers into it. I loved it. Great read!" Toni - a Goodreads reviewer
The Goodreads' rating is system is different from Amazon's as most of us know. Five star on Amazon is 'I loved it' but the equivalent on Goodreads is four stars. Five stars on Goodreads means you found it 'amazing'.I find few amazing books but I thought it might be interesting to see which books you'd rate as 'amazing'.
One that jumps to my mind is:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I'll add a few as I think of them but I hope you'll add your 'amazing' books too.
For me Anna, a five star read, whether GR or Amazon, is one that stays in my mind when not reading and that I think about after I've finished it. Many of them I could easily read again.Ones I've already read more than once:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Wizard's First Rule
The End of Mr. Y
The Stand
Really though, some people are so tight with their ratings, I do wonder if they actually enjoy reading at all.
I've noticed someone like that, David. Why stagger through one and two star reads? I ditch them and go on to something else. Life's too short!
yes, I ditched at least one on David's list .For me, most Pratchetts get 5 stars (although not the last few - he definitely went off the boil towards the end). Haven't read the new one - The Shepherd's Crown yet. The last TP I reread was Night Watch. Gonna reread Thief of Time soon, cos I'm convinced days & weeks aren't as long as they used to be . . .
Oh yes, David and Kath, I find I can tell quite a lot about someone just by looking at the reviews/ratings they give various things. As you almost imply, some seem to like punishing themselves and then passing it on.Fascinating to see how very different our tastes can be. I love the fact that we're all unique. Tim's choices will probably come again though!
I want to know which one you ditched, now, Tim. One man's 5* ends up in another's trash can :~)
Tim wrote: "yes, I ditched at least one on David's list .For me, most Pratchetts get 5 stars (although not the last few - he definitely went off the boil towards the end)...."
Raising SteamI enjoyed but it struck me as the great man saying farewell to a lot of old friends who he knew he was never going to get to play with again.
I ended up feeling a bit saddened, not because of the quality of the writing or story, but because he was saying goodbye
Jim, exactly how I felt. All the toys out of the toybox for one last play.David, it was The Stand. SK waffled all over the place and never got to the point. Good for insomnia or weight training, but honestly the man can write for 3 chapters and nothing happens. Purple prose at its purplest. Could cut 600 pages and it would still be too long.
I agree, a good harsh edit wouldn't do it any harm, Tim.
David wrote: "I agree, a good harsh edit wouldn't do it any harm, Tim."Yeah, but instead of that he added back 600 pages his editor had (sensibly) told him to cut, making it even worse!
I often find when I edit that I take a whole pile of stuff out and then add more back in. How it happens, I've no idea ;)
"I really wanted to know what happened next so found it difficult to put this book down." Kevin Marsh on Goodreads
Free for Kindle Unlimited members
It is 1821 and smuggling is rife on the English coast. One man is determined, not only to stop this violent trade, but to hang the perpetrators - one in particular. Lucy has her own problems and they get worse when these two men enter her life.
Tim wrote: "David wrote: "I agree, a good harsh edit wouldn't do it any harm, Tim."Yeah, but instead of that he added back 600 pages his editor had (sensibly) told him to cut, making it even worse!"
Ahem.
The Stand is my all time favourite book.
The extended version just added extra betterness.
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