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Good afternoon, 5+ years in the making > 1 day to go. Bizarrely, The Monkey State ebook is in a running battle with Animal Farm in the Amazon New Release charts. Not what I expected. Especially before the book's even been released! Note - please wait till tomorrow (if you can) to buy as that gives a chance of it doing well on launch week. Playing to the Amazon algorithm. From what I understand pre-orders don’t count for this. Equally I know a few of you have gone through and ordered so no worries and I’m very grateful. Feel free to search away on the Amazon New Release Charts though. I’m also well aware that it is a new version of Animal Farm (almost called it Amazon Farm!) rather than George Orwell’s original from 1945. Still, it's fun to be up there with a classic for a moment. – J. R. Roberts P.S. I can confirm the book release was not intended to coincide with Trump's inauguration. |
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Or is there?Last week (on a bit of a whim) I loaded a free promotion for The Monkey State eBook. Given it's only listed at 99 pence or cents, I didn't think much of it. But a quick end of bank holiday KDP dashboard check... And 100+ people had grabbed their free copy. This rose to 173 by the end of the day. Things slowed down from there and yet the 5-day offer gave a real boost to orders: Last week on the KDP dashboard 🐒 It was obviously exciting to see as it propelled the book to the top of...
Morning, As mentioned I thought it'd be cool to mark three months since release by answering a few of your questions. Thanks to those of you who submitted one. I'm sticking to my word and capping it at the first 5.So, without further ado, here we go...1. I hope the map of the Monkey State would not be too precise/rigid, treeper paths whilst interesting, should be left to the readers imagination should they not ?A very astute question. One that the mapmaker & I are conscious of. The way I see...
Easter Sunday (20 April) will mark three months since the monkeys were released into the wild 🎉🐒I'll therefore be writing/sending a special edition of this newsletter on the day.It'll be a Q&A format of the first 5 questions I get asked.About the book or process that is. Not general life aha. So if you're intrigued about anything from The Monkey State — Characters origins, sales, worldbuilding, KU page reads, imposter syndrome, royalties, challenges, would I recommend writing a book etc. —...