I have been following Grace’s movements on Kindle, since they have each book’s ‘Bestseller Stat” right on the listing. (FYI, she’s in the top 9% of e-book sales today). I have been very curious to know about iTunes listings, because it seemed to me that most of the people I was hearing from had bought their copy on iTunes.
Just this week I discovered the iTunes Book Charts. Grace Awakening has a profile there. I learned that it was doing quite well, so well in fact, that it had been making regular appearances on the list of Top 100 Fantasy eBooks in Canada! Needless to say, I was excited. (Picture Shawn squealing and leaping about).
Last night I went through every chart from the day Grace debuted at 34th place (her best stat). I was absolutely astounded to discover that she spent 14 days straight in the Top 100 during the first two weeks of August!
Holy Cow!!
After that, she’s popped on and off the list, so she’s sitting around the 100 line. She’s been on again the last couple of days. I am so excited that my book baby is off in the world making her own friends. I can’t believe that she’s holding her own statistically with authors like J R R Tolkein, Terry Goodkind, and David Edding! I’ve read those guys!
I read a lot of SciFi/Fantasy as a kid. I am one of those Star Trek and Star Wars nerds. It’s so cool that Grace has a place among ‘my people.’ 😀
I hope she has the staying power to keep there, and that more people find her and fall in love with her and her friends. I’m really looking forward to the release of Grace Awakening Power, and seeing what she does when she’s not just dreaming, but has some potency behind her! Will she take off into the stratosphere?
Thanks to you for reading. Grace and I appreciate you entering our world.
Shawn L. Bird 