Things that have happened:
* After it looking like sales for HL had nosedived, they (seem to have) fishhooked back up after a few days, which is very odd but I blame Christmas.
Still not
amazing sales, but cause for me to be optimistic!
* I got rejected from Booklife, and from Bookbub, again. Ah well.
* Reviewer Stefan Raets listed
Zero Sum Game as tying for his
second favorite science fiction novel of the year, behind
Ancillary Sword. I'LL TAKE THAT, FOLKS.
* I've had the "Rio Adopts a Puppy" short up for preorder on Amazon since the release of
Half Life -- I'm still finishing the formatting, at which point I'll put it up for preorder everywhere -- and Amazon actually sent out an unasked promo email for it (presumably to people who'd bought my stuff, though I don't know what their mailing list was exactly -- thanks to the friend who forwarded it!
) that said "New from SL Huang" and advertised the short. Why they did this for a
short instead of for
BOOK 2 I have no idea, and it's a bit maddening, but still, it's nice to get unasked-for promo! I'm wondering if this is because I have a month-long preorder period for this, or because the sales for HL have been concentrated enough to trip some algorithm. Anyway, it might be worth experimenting more with long preorder periods that overlap with the high sales numbers of a new release.