Sales Pump

So my Voice of the Whirlwind 99-cent sale continues through Saturday.  I’ve made enough sales that I’ve paid for the Bookbub advert and will have some profit left over, even though I’m only making 30-40 cents per copy (depending on the forum).  My overall sales have increased slightly after each of these sales, though my suspicion is that far more ebooks are sold are the 99-cent rate than are ever read.

The big exception was the sale earlier this year of my historical novel Brig of War, which not only did well during the sale, but pumped sales of the other Privateers & Gentlemen books as well.  In fact the historicals now outsell all my SF save for Hardwired.  Can it be that thirty-odd years after their first publication, they have finally found an audience? 

And another curious thing.  For the past few months, The Rift has been my biggest seller, outpacing Hardwired, which had been well ahead of everything else up to that point.   I haven’t done any advertising on The Rift other than a blog post, but sales just took off.  Is it a book the world has been waiting for?  Was there some review that I didn’t see and can’t find?  

The Rift and P&G were the most recent novels to be uploaded, so maybe it’s just that they’re new to the ebook audience.  But still, I’d like to think that they’ve found some readers they deserve.