JABBERWOCKY is exploding!

Before I went to bed last night I checked the sales data for my novella, JABBERWOCKY, and saw that it had sold 13 copies in June.  Not too bad considering I've been giving it away free on Smashwords.com for most of the month. 

This morning when I logged in I thought I was in the wrong account.  It listed my book at 935 sales for the month.  I double checked the login  and sure enough, the sales data was for JABBERWOCKY. 

Here's some raw numbers for number nerds like myself:

at 7:30  I had 'sold' 935 and sat at #111 on the Free Kindle List

at 9:00 it was up to 1431 and had moved up to #93  (that's 5.5 books per minute)

by 9:10, at 1501 'sales' it was up to #52 on the Free Kindle Book List, and #3 overall Epic Fantasy

It climbed through the day, and is still climbing, but the latest numbers show the following:

at 4:50 3700 'sales', it is number #12 on the Free Kindle Book List and #2 overall Epic Fantasy.

With all due respect to Mr. Carroll, JABBERWOCKY is currently ranked above Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Kindle's Free List.
Here's hoping it climbs to the top 10 overall, and #1 Epic Fantasy!

If you want to follow the rankings, here's the link:  http://www.amazon.com/Jabberwocky-ebook/dp/B004UB7SR8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Happy Mad Hatter Day (to my British friends)!

"Why in the world is June 10th Mad Hatter Day in the UK?"

I'm glad you asked!  The British form of writing dates is day/month/year (which always made sense to me since it's smallest unit to biggest).  So today is 10/6/11.  The Mad Hatter is known to wear the price tag on his hat: 10/6.  So in the UK, the unofficially and obscure day is today.  In the US it rolls around on 10/6 as well, which is October 6 to us.

I wanted to release my newest novel today in honor of Mad Hatter Day, but due to last minute changes (read: improvements), it isn't ready.  Look for it later this week!  Here's the working draft of the cover:

Cover design by Jodie Coleman.