I didn’t want to drag out the post by giving them here, but I can proudly say that we’re doing well on both of them.

You are, of course, welcome to view any of the metrics for “Dark Jury” or “One More Silver Dollar” on their respective Amazon or Goodreads pages. Finally, we had an unexpected article where we were selected for their “ Best Occult Urban Fantasy Books To Work Your Imagination Out.” On Goodreads, I have 12 reviews and a 4.08 rating. That makes such a big difference because the 11 reviews move you up in Amazon’s placement algorithm for “products like this.” On Audible, the book has eight reviews with a 4.4 out of 5-star rating. On Amazon, the book holds a 4.9 out of 5 stars with 11 reviews. As a result, we’re rated #1,491 in Occult Fiction and, impressively, #3,124 in Urban Fiction. In audiobooks, which is its own animal, we have a smaller field of books to compete with because it costs the author money to produce them. Considering that this group includes my book of less than one year’s age competing with “IT” by Stephen King, I’m stoked. For paperback, we’re rated #15,594 in Occult Fiction. On Kindle, which is the most expansive and most arduous format to compete in because it bears no actual cost to publishing, we’re # 8,363 in “Occult Horror” books and # 13,292 in “Occult Fiction.” Paperback format, from what I’ve read, is considered the most traditional standard. So, what have we accomplished in a year together?įor “The Stars at Knight,” Amazon provides genre metrics for each format. I noticed that yesterday when I was looking at all of my Amazon metrics. It’s almost been a year since I released my first book.

The Stars At Knight by Rob Bartley