Hi hello, all! It's rare that I do chapter updates as opposed to doing them in the pre/post-chapter author notes, but it's a big day for the series!
Book 3 is now live on Amazon. Woohoo!
This book launch is a bit special, as it's the first book I've published since quitting my job to write full time. That also means it's very important for me, as it's going to serve as a good litmus test for how viable it is to keep writing as a career. All that to say: The success of this launch matters to me a lot!
If you'd like to support the series or snag a copy of the book for yourself, that'd be wonderful and mean a lot to me.
If you aren't going to grab the book (which is of course more than okay -- I'll always be posting here for free), then it would also mean a whole bunch if you found the time to give it a rating or review on Amazon. You do not need to have bought the book to do this, and as you've all read book three, you're all eligible to do so. In the case of a rating, I'm pretty sure the entire process is just three clicks -- pretty much as low-effort and fast as it gets!
In that vein, I will give the usual Amazon spiel which you may have heard from other authors by now: Pretty much anything beneath a 4.5 star rating on Amazon will get the book hidden from Amazon promotions and signal bad things to readers, so please keep that in mind! A five-star rating on Amazon largely means "I liked this book enough that I think people should see it and read it" whereas a four-star rating and below are various degrees of saying "this book should be downranked/people should not read or buy this."
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
It's a kind of annoying system, especially if you like using ratings to compare how much you like different books, but I think it's always good to keep in mind. This is quadruply true if it's a smaller/independent book like this, as ratings pretty much single-handedly determine if the book and series sells or tanks (and whether I have to get a day job again). More than that, the version on Amazon is considerably more polished, so if you're on the fence between any ratings, I'm hoping that whatever you think needs some work has already been fixed in the published version. If you do want to give a harsher review or use the star system to compare your favorite books, a Royal Road review is a pretty good place to do so. Ratings spiel, over!
My next big goal for the rest of the year is to see this series talked about a bit more on all the various LitRPG and Progression Fantasy outlets. In particular, really hoping to see this title name-dropped more whenever people make posts on r/litrpg and r/ProgressionFantasy looking for book recommendations. Or more concretely, I'm really hoping to see the series on at least one of the "tier lists" that people seem to be posting a lot on those. Here's hoping this is the book that kicks some of that off, and wish me luck!
That's about all I got! As always, a major thank you to all of you for supporting this series, whether it be on Amazon or here on Royal Road. I'll probably be spending all of today hopping between various sites to post about the launch and anxiously checking the sales reports and ratings as they roll in, but it looks like I'll manage to get through this without an admin week. Slowly building up a backlog again, and with any luck, I'll be back here posting about a book four launch not too far in the future.
Next chapter Thursday, and don't forget to leave a rating or review if you can! Thanks all!