1/30/23 --- Crazy couple of days!

 Well, I missed yesterday's post, but man it was a busy day.

I had family up for most of the day, having our Christmas dinner we missed because they all had covid. Thankfully everyone is feeling much better now, so we were able to get together and catch up. It was a good visit that ended with me and my sibling talking about D&D for over an hour, as usual. It always seems to happen.

However, that part was pretty tame compared to what was happening with Alpha's Rejection over on Amazon! Saturday was a good sales day, but I was watching my rank jump higher and higher. Come Sunday morning I was in the top 100 of two major categories with tons of page reads flying in! By the time I went to bed last night, I had broken into the top 100 of Shifter Romance, one of the three most popular categories on all of Amazon! It was such an incredible feeling to have so many people reading my book and borrowing it for their kindles! Yesterday I broke every single personal record I've ever had with book sales except my yearly total obviously. That's literally the only one left now. In the past 15 days, I've sold 20% of my total sales for all of last year, which is crazy to even try to comprehend. If I keep up a similar pace for the rest of the year, I will be making more than half of my day job salary on book sales alone. Insane.

All that being said, this has been such an incredible journey over these past couple of weeks! To see how much my books are capable of and what they can accomplish if shown to the right audience. Beta's Bliss has several preorders now and I'm hoping it rises even further before its release. I'm already 12k into the book and hoping to be done with it before the end of February if I can. We're going to Florida at the end of the month, so hopefully, that will give me a little more downtime to be working on it and get some things finished up. 

That means that Beta's Bliss and The Quest for Cowmelot may be coming out at about the same time, drawing from two distinctly different audiences. Hopefully, they both do well and my sales go wild! That would be incredible. Anything to get me closer to that full-time author life that I want so badly.

Today has also been a record breaking day of sales, so here's to an amazing February!

-Blake