My first bestseller list!!

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I hit #10 on the paperback list for Locus (data gathered, apparently, in October)!

Okay, so Locus focuses on specialty SF bookstores, but still, look at this list!

PAPERBACKS
1) Night Watch, Terry Pratchett (HarperTorch) 1-
2) Exile's Honor, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 1-
3) Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Tor) 21
4) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (HarperPerennial) 137
5) War of Honor, David Weber (Baen) 1-
6) The Sky So Big and Black, John Barnes (Tor) 1-
7) Burndive, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect) 1-
8) The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) 25
9) Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (Avon) 3-
10) Digital Knight, Ryk E. Spoor (Baen) 1-

Only one other new author (Karin Lowachee, with her second book) on that list -- and all the rest are big names! Like, my name is on the same list with people like Weber, Stephenson, Brooks, Pratchett, and Lackey!!

Sweet!

Comments

Congratulations!

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I didn't know you were out in paperback -- did Baen do "Digital Knight" as direct to ppbk without a hardcover? Whichever, it's very interesting -- I suspect your visibility on rec.arts.sf.written has something to do with this -- but also promising.

Digital Knight...

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Yes, DK was straight to paper. This is normal for new authors; HCs are for successful authors, as a rule. Mountain Magic (which contains my collaboration with Eric Flint) is also coming out as paper (because the other 2/3 of the book is reissues of Drake's Old Nathan stories and Kuttner's Hogben stories).

I'm sure that a good deal of any success I have will be due to my Great Old One online omnipresence, yes. :)

congrats!

[(Anonymous)]

It's a great feeling. I have some contributions to some oreilly technical books -- it was cool to see it orderable via amazon.

Speaking of amazon here is your book! So far all great reviews :-)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074347161X/qid=1074203056//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/102-2310673-2398561?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

john