Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Added 2017-02-09 15:30:00 +0000 UTCSo final download numbers from yesterday's promotion: 28,417. Today there's some follow-on downloads... it's at 2200 or so right now, and when I checked I was still #1 in the free SF and free space opera categories, so it might hang a bit... until Bookbub pushes today's SF deal, anyway!
Will all 28,000 of those people even open the book? Certainly not. But if I get even 50 new people out of that promotion, it will have been worth it. I am keeping my hopes minor, because overwhelmingly what this whole thing illustrated to me was how fickle success is, and how poor an idea it is to hang too much on money and fame as measures of worth. Earthrise isn't a better book at 28,000 downloads than it was the day before with 2. More people noticed it, that's all, and luck was a huge part of why that happened.
I bought a lottery ticket and won. It makes me feel, painfully, for the people who are buying and losing.
But for the experience of watching the number skyrocket, and for the great fun of sharing it with you all (indirectly here on Patreon, and in realtime on Discord), I am grateful! It was tremendous fun, and an immense lesson, and I made sure I said so to the One listening.
Let's see if anything changes in the month to come... in the meantime, we shall keep plugging along. As always. :)
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It's because you are a wonderful, empathetic and compassionate person. You are always thinking of the feelings and welfare of others. :)
2017-02-10 18:11:17 +0000 UTCThank you! It took some time to grow on me, since I was used to less modern churches. But the stained glass is really amazing.
M.C.A. Hogarth
2017-02-10 11:49:06 +0000 UTCI guess maybe in some other universe it would be easy for this to go to my head and have it all be about me. But it's not really. That's all.
M.C.A. Hogarth
2017-02-10 11:48:42 +0000 UTCYou have a beautiful church too. :)
Mandy Lemmi
2017-02-10 05:31:54 +0000 UTC
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