SOUL OF TYRANTS on the historical fantasy bestseller list

I am pleased to report that SOUL OF TYRANTS briefly got up to #86 on the Amazon US Historical Fantasy bestseller list:

Thanks, everyone! It’s long been a goal of mine to have a novel appear on on the Amazon US bestseller lists, and with SOUL OF SWORDS, it’s now happened twice.

Of course, one might point out I did this artificially. I deliberately moved SOUL OF TYRANTS to the Historical Fantasy category, since it’s less heavily trafficked than the Epic Fantasy. I also had the BookBub ad for DEMONSOULED on the 11th, and apparently enough people liked DEMONSOULED to move on to SOUL OF TYRANTS. So this happened because I planned it and the plan worked, and I know a lot of writers find this sort of marketing distasteful.

But I think they are wrong. Many people in general and writers in particular have this sort of idea that the Magic Success Fairies will visit them if they just show up and mean well. But the world does not work that way, alas, and I think it is better to work for something rather than to hope the world simply drops it into your lap. Even if you fail, failure often teaches valuable lessons.

But, again, thank you everyone – all the planning in the world would do me no good if you didn’t buy SOUL OF TYRANTS. 🙂

-JM