It is Book Bomb Day!
A Book Bomb is when we pick out a deserving author who could use a publicity boost, and get as many people as possible to buy their book in the same day on Amazon. The more people who buy, the higher it goes in the sales rankings. Once it gets on some bestseller lists, that gets it in front of even more new eyes. Success breeds success, the author gets new readers, and most importantly, the author GETS PAID.
Today’s Book Bomb is for my friend Mike Kupari’s brand new sci-fi novel, Sins of Her Father.
Many of you will recognize MIke’s name. That’s because he was my coauthor on the Dead Six series of thrillers. He’s launched his solo career doing sci-fi novels. And these are old school throw backs, to when sci-fi was fun adventure, with rocket ships and their brave crews visiting new worlds, meeting interesting people, and shooting them.
Mike is a great story teller. If you’ve not read him before, I’d recommend grabbing his other solo novel, Her Brother’s Keeper. Also, if you’ve not read Dead Six, Swords of Exodus, or Alliance of Shadows, by me and Mike, you are missing out. Those are a lot of fun.
A little about the author, Mike Kupari is a former EOD Tech. His first novel came out when he was stationed at a little FOB in Afghanistan. Now he’s living in Arizona. But I’ve known Mike for a long time. We wrote the story that would become Dead Six together, posting a couple thousand words every other day, all summer, live on an internet gun forum. We worked together at my gun store, and taught pistol classes together.
So please tell you friends, share the link, spread the word. Mike is a good dude, so let’s get him as many new readers as possible.
I’ll be updating the sales ranks as they change. Amazon used to update every hour, and that got crazy. But now they’ve instituted a long delay so we won’t really see a ton of movement until tonight. (assuming it is still the same was as last time)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #848 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #925 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #5116 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,871 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #374 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #407 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #442 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
EDIT: We are moving up in the ranks
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #548 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #601 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #3045 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,154 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #98 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #103 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #108 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
EDIT 2: We are still climbing. Please, keep telling your friends.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #367 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #411 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #2097 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,998 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #62 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #67 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #68 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
EDIT 3: Still climbing. It is hard to guess how many hours Amazon has the delay on right now. They keep changing it on us. But, we’re now 2nd page on the Kindle bestseller lists. Top 20 is where it is at. So let’s keep flogging! 😀
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #260 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #298 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #1566 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,807 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #39 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #44 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
EDIT 4: Dinner time update! And we are getting into the top 20s of some bestseller lists now.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #182 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #222 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #1149 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,211 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #19 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #29 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
EDIT: The next morning. I missed whatever the high was last night, but as of the next morning on the down slope, we did really good in Kindle and okay in physical.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #211 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #256 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #1323 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,085 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
- #19 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
- #25 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
Got the audiobook
Does the audible book count towards the ranking or just the hard copy?
Good question. I don’t know. Larry do you know?
Hey, Larry. I’m just curious. Since Amazon owns audible now would it be possible to add in the audible ranks for when there is an audible version? There is in this case and I saw that you had his paperback and kindle ranks and I was wondering how it broke down. Does Amazon count the audible orders as the same as the kindle orders? Is that purchase as important? I figure you get paid but am not sure how the breakdown works.
I’m not sure how that works actually. I know the two are connected because when they have a big sale for me on Audible, I see my Amazon author rank rise shortly after. But I always tell people to buy it whatever way makes them the most happy.
I got both Kindle & Audiobook.
At 12:14pm CST
TRADE PAPERBACK
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#548 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
#601 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
#3045 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
KINDLE
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,154 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#98 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
#103 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
#108 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
AUDIBLE
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#164 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Science Fiction
#185 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military
#229 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
Bought mine. Kindle edition. I was looking forward to this book. Her Brother’s Keeper was great! I look forward to many more Mike Kupari books.
I just bought Brother’s Keeper and this one. Kindle edition. Hopefully buying them as a bundle will still count.
Got books 1 and 2 on audible.
Dang, almost missed seeing this, but grabbed a hardcopy and the audiobook.
A day late but not a dollar short this week. Bought.
Late to this party, sorry. Just got the kindle version.
It’s a decent book. Got mine through baen.com. Worth the money
Former EOD Tech?! I’ll likely buy his book but he can sit and wait ’til I’m good and ready.
Here’s an interview I did about the book.
https://youtu.be/qfIfvyCwUXw
Just started reading, remembering Her Brother’s Keeper as being quite tasty. This one gets off to a quick and reader-grabbing start, like Larry’s own work.
Off topic, but I managed to get my hands on momster hunter siege, and after the near perfect ending of the Grimnoir Chronicles, i had my hopes up,but in my opinion it felt a bit forced toward the end. I won’t go into detail here, and I know its an ARC, but what happened?
That’s funny. In reality the ending of Warbound was far more rushed than the ending of Siege. On it I wrote exactly what I wanted to write, and the next book in the series actually overlaps with Siege in the timeline.
Only just saw this. Set it to Signal Boost tomorrow. Sorry I didn’t see it at the time!