A brief #SilerSaturday saleswank

On September 20, 2015September 20, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

My Author portal tells me that Skylights’ overall peak yesterday was at #486, which is the best ranking any of my books have ever had, but this was the best screenshot I caught:

Subgenre peaks appear to be #5 in Space Exploration and #8 in Science Fiction Adventure. That’s 293 downloads in a day to get those ranks, with no advertising other than my social media. My best day ever, and the best month of the year all by itself. Once I have a day for Sanctum (next week) to get a baseline, I may experiment with ads. Or maybe not.

Thank you, everyone. I genuinely appreciate it.

#10!

On September 19, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing2 Comments

I never really know how seriously to take sales ranks in subgenres, but top 10 is cool. MOAR!

#WeekendCoffeeShare: Reasonable Positivity Edition

On September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Stories5 Comments

If we were having coffee, I’d be pretty happy. I badly want to be having coffee right now, but our coffeepot wants for a vinegaring, and it’s running slllooooowwwwww.

All in all, it wasn’t a bad week. The boy made it through a week of school with no poopery issues. At my school, we had a couple of notable suspensions that kept my afternoon class functional all week, and the first math test of the year went way better than I thought it was going to. My homeroom girls ate the thing alive, and my afternoon class showed a somewhat unexpected haves-and-have-nots pattern, where the kids either did great or very poorly. I was expecting the poorly part, mind you, as they don’t pay attention and there’s way too many special ed kids in there to be able to teach them effectively, but the number of them that did really well was really gratifying. What I didn’t see was kids in the middle. They either missed one or two or they missed eight.

I would probably point at my wrist at some point and remark about how there wasn’t a brand-new Pebble Time Steel on it, because the post office is screwing with me (if you want to take it personallly) or having some issues with their tracking system if you don’t. The tracking on the package is simultaneously insisting both that my watch is in California (where it has been since “shipping” on Tuesday) and that it will arrive yesterday. I’m crossing my fingers that a slew of updates will pop all at once and I’m getting it today. We’ll see.

I am looking forward to being mugged when some nitwit mistakes my $250 red and gold Pebble for a $17,000 Apple Watch, by the way.

And then I’d point out that it’s #SilerSaturday again, and Skylights is free, and since Skylights is my favorite of my books you really ought to download it and give it a read because it’s great.

How’re you?

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD recap is live!

On September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Reviews, Television

…It has been for a couple of hours, actually, but I didn’t want to step on the #SilerSaturday post. Go check it out!

It’s #SilerSaturday again! SKYLIGHTS free today!

On September 19, 2015September 18, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

My Mars novel Skylights is free all day today! Go download it!

I suspect that this one’s subgenres will be a trifle harder to crack than Benevolence Archives’ were, but this book has also never been free, so presumably I’ll get more people from my social networks downloading it. We’ll see.

Friday grab bag (ALSO: 1500th post!)

On September 18, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy2 Comments

This is my 1500th post. The blog came into existence in June of 2013, so that’s a rather ridiculous number. Clearly the place was appropriately named. I’m closing in on my 200,000th pageview, so I probably ought to start thanking people every day for bothering to pay attention to me at all.
Speaking of thanking people for paying attention, how about a free book? It’s #SilerSaturday again tomorrow, and Skylights is the book of the week. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it does, since this is the first time it’s ever been free other than a handful of little contests and giveaways. It’ll probably go free sometime late tonight and will be free until the wee hours of Sunday morning.
It hit me today that I don’t really have any funny or interesting stories from school yet. The dynamics of my classes haven’t really changed all that much, although I’m starting to get the afternoon dialed in a bit better (don’t tell them.) I just don’t have anything memorable to say yet. That’s really surprising.
That said, our district has in its infinite wisdom decided that on Monday and Tuesday of next week every math, language arts and special ed teacher in seventh and eight grade in the entire district is going to be at a training, and that furthermore all teachers new to the district should also be at a training on Tuesday. These two things overlap, of course. How people are expected to attend both is an open question, and the fact that we appear to have no subs at all even on a normal day means that they may as well cancel school. We have 22 people scheduled to be out on Tuesday, plus one of the administrators, and that only because they rioted and insisted that one of them be allowed to stay behind. Yeah. They thought they were pulling 22 teachers and both of the administrators. From every middle school in town, plus the high schools. You understand why I don’t want to work for these people any longer.
We played a fun game at lunch, called “Try to come up with a way for this plan to be more stupid than it is.” No one won.
Our zoo acquired four new tigers this week. Four! Omg zoo zoo zoo zoo NOW. I’m going this weekend tigers tigers TIGERS!!!
I was all psyched about starting to watch Dr. Who this season. Apparently Dr. Who was not all psyched about me starting to watch it. Doing it anyway, show! Screw you!
That’s all I can think of. Watch Sourcerer tomorrow for another Fear the Walking Dead post, though. And remember: Skylights is free on #SilerSaturday for the first time! It’s a great book! Check it out!