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Smashing idea, I like it. I'll start a thread for Top Tens and we'll go from there. How about a deadline for Top Tens to be in? A week? Two weeks?

Ace, good thinking. So, next step - would we open a thread for nominations and then eventually come to a shortlist via voting or via head to heads? Not sure the best way to run it but I'm willing to get the ball rolling a little :D

Here's a question - is there a Mythic Scribes Top 25 etc Fantasy Books list anywhere? Would it be fun to make and vote on one - knock out rounds etc etc?

Yeah, some more big omissions (I'd even put Feist in there too maybe)

Agreed - great to see Lloyd Alexander in there. Missing Robin Hobb I think? And I wouldn't have put Rothfuss in just yet - not until we see how he goes wrapping up his series perhaps

Ace, that sounds like a pretty great result for the single promo, awesome! Hope spreading them out a bit works :)

Yeah, me too - I tried that in the beginning and got one book up to rank 20-odd in a small sub-genre (magic-realism) but found I got better traction with other books by spreading the ads, especially with my other titles where the category is larger and the 'big first splash' didn't really made...

Stagger your promo ads too (with the newsletter sites) to hang around the higher rankings for consequetive days/more days, giving you more chance to get some random buyers Write a series :)

Lava Reef Zone on piano

Hybrid all the way!

Another vote for keep them both. Especially the one in the dialogue, yeah

Awesome article, thanks :)

Same - the PKD Reader has some utterly fascinating stuff in it

(sorry, repeated post by accident)

This is the key - writing a series (or multiple series) I feel. Readers now tell me they finished Book 1 and immediately bought Book 2 of my Bone Mask books, which is awesome. But no-one, after reading one of my standalones, says, "I just brought the rest of your books!" (sadly :D) I can...