Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog
The doggonest story you ever heard!

This is the first version of my novel, "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog". After I had completed the novel and had begun looking around for an agent, I realized that there were certain shortcomings to the story as it stood at that point - that I needed to rewrite most of the novel if I really wanted to get it commercially published. So, I dumped most of what I had written already and began rewriting the novel from scratch.

At the same time, I had a few people who'd read the novel and said that they enjoyed it. I began to wonder - should I simply let the original version disappear? Since the new version was going to be substantially different from the original version, I decided to post the original version as a serial novel online. Like the Saturday Matinee Serials of yore, I will post a few new pages every week. Enjoy!

 
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"Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" Jumps 10,000+ Places in Lulu Sales Rankings!

I kid you not :) My book, Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog, has jumped over 10,000 places in the Lulu sales ranks. Last week when I checked the rankings, I was somewhere around 61,729 or something similar. I check today and I am at 50,227 :)

OK, I'll let you in on a little secret (and you probably knew this already if you know anything about self-publishing, Lulu etc.) - I only sold three books (as far as I know) for that huge jump in sales rankings :p

The thing that confuses me though is the fact that this jump in rankings did not take place for over a month after the sales occurred. But then again, that's probably how the Lulu sales-ranking system works. Now that I think about it, if they have a return policy, that also probably allows them to take returns into account when calculating the sales rank.

Anyway, a month or so ago, I had sold two books within a short period of time and that's when I thought about sales rankings. So I began checking the sales rankings to see if they changed. They didn't as far as I could tell. Then I sold another book. I checked the sales rankings again. Still no change. So I thought that perhaps three books weren't enough to make a dent in the sales rankings and gave up checking on them. Then today I happened to check the book page (as I normally do occasionally :p) and noticed that the sales rank had changed ... and how! I guess it just takes a while for the rankings to change ...

My question now is, how much more will my rankings go up if one more book is purchased? Anybody wanna give it a try? :D

Fahim at 24 Apr 2008 12:06 PM :: | (0) :: | (0)
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