Tomorrow (October 4th) is Book Bomb Day for my latest novel “Survivors”. Please wait until midnight, Pacific time to place your order. The book is already ranked #170 in overall sales rank and #23 in Amazon’s “Action Adventure” books category. I’m hopeful that it will get in to the Top 20, overall, and the Top Three in the Action Adventure category. (There is some weighty competition, with authors like CJ Lyons, Stieg Larsson, George R.R. Martin, K.C. May, and Brett Battles.) At least my book won’t be competing against multiple “Twilight” vampire novels, like “Patriots” was, on its release day.
Competing for attention, the Australian near-future war of resistance movie Tomorrow When the War Began will also be released on Blu-Ray on October 4th. And simultaneously, the Elves of Cupertino are expected to announce the iPhone 5. In the publishing world, “The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two: The Son of Neptune” will be released the same day. Since that book is part of such a wildly popular series, I expect that it will jump to #1. (That book’s predecessor was both #1 on Amazon and #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.)
Hopefully there might even be room for “Survivors” in Amazon’s Top Ten.
“Survivors” Rankings In The Past Week:
| Date |
Amazon Rank |
| September 26 | 384 |
| September 27 | 365 |
| September 28 | 308 |
| September 29 | 281 |
| September 30 | 212 |
| October 1 | 176 |
| October 2 | 170 |
Tomorrow, I’ll be graphing hourly updates. And hopefully I will also have a live ranking feed from Amazon, if my #2 Son can complete coding a shell script.
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I’m scheduled to be on both the Peter Schiff show and the G. Gordon Liddy show, tomorrow. (Tuesday, October 4, 2011.) Both shows will be available as podcasts.