Thursday, 17 April 2025

Best Bestseller?

I'm told that Daughter of Crows will appear in 3rd place on the upcoming Sunday Times bestseller list!

Which ain't bad on a partial week's sales. Increasingly Sunday Times positions (on release) have depended on subscription boxes and special editions, and these days they dominate the equation. I have benefited from this trend of late with Voyager setting up their own subscription system for special editions: The Locked Library.
Well done Harper Voyager UK for getting it out there.
The graphic shows my previous efforts. A first week doesn't make a book but it can often break it. This one has gone very well, and The Academy of Kindness trilogy certainly has potential to do well.

Daughter of Crows is DARK. So much so that it will turn some readers aside. It also has a literary edge to it which can hurt in the current market. However, as with The Broken Empire, the people who like the book REALLY LIKE the book. The non-standard storytelling will, I hope they leave the readers with more enduring memories along with questions that they will return to.

If I had to guess which of my books people will still be talking about at some point a decade or two in the future, it would be the Library Trilogy and The Academy of Kindness.












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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 April 2025 at 05:20

    Helllllll yes

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  2. Anonymous17 April 2025 at 21:29

    Well done.Long time fan and just digging into this series and already 19% in and I’m absolutely head over heels.

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  3. Anonymous23 May 2025 at 07:58

    The Library Trilogy is very innovative and thought-provoking, but I still think the Broken Empire will be your work that's the most remembered. This is because of its (probably unintentional) core deconstruction that dissolves storytelling, mythmaking and identity itself. This is my analysis, to see what I mean: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/TheBrokenEmpireTrilogy

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  4. LoSt25 June 2025 at 23:02

    Broken Empire for me, but I finished and loved the new series as well!

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  5. Omnivorous Reader1 August 2025 at 18:00

    Just finished TBT Held Her Heart, and it has absolutly shreded MY heart! I liked the broken Empire, but I think Ill be raveing about the Library trillogy for the rest of my life.

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