This is a test of the Amazon tweaking system.. This is only a test...

[kinzel]

The sound you are about to hear is the sound of millions.... well thousands .. .well... hundreds .... maybe tens of tens .... or maybe ten, anyway, a few ... or a couple ... people helping get the word out about a couple of books near and dear to my heart.  And,. we'll test a theory that soomeone has that mere page views are sufficient to raise a book's ranking at amazon.

So what I'm asking you to do is to go to amazon.com with your favorite browser, and -- under books -- type in the words _Carousel Tides_  ...
and then look at the resulting pages, and select the one most appropriate to Sharon Lee.  The book in question is due out in November and can be ordered now.

That's all -- go look!  I note that as I send this the ranking of Carousel Tides is at Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #62,090 in Books  and the other info is that it is:

#4 in	Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#44 in	Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction
#88 in	Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Fantasy

So (while wondering WTF about the graphic novels stuff) if you go look (and really, you can order one if you're in the mood, we won't mind!) let's see where the book ends up ... in say 12 hours and 24.  IIRC it was ranked 167,000 and change  a couple days ago, but we want to see if casual interest is enough to trigger amazon-splurge. 

Thanks.

Oh yeah, as a sort of control, you can also look for Korval's Game   ... which is due out next May sometime, and which ranked at Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #478,434 when I posted this.

really, thanks....

Comments

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't think this is how it's supposed to work. At 10:40pm EDT:

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #88,207 in Books
#5 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#71 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction

[dmellieon.livejournal.com]

Done and done.

[spiffikins]

There seems to be something stacking the deck against this...8:54pm Pacific time


Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #101,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#5 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#84 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction

[drammar.livejournal.com]

As of 7:10 AM EDT:

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #72,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#2 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#53 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction

No mention of Books>/Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Fantasy

PS: Bought another copy to give to my sister.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Oddly, when I searched for "Carousel Tides" "Sharon Lee" (with quotes round both search terms) it told me there were no matches -- it automagically dropped 'Carousel" from the search and then found both the correct book and your "Dragon Tides" chapbook. But Amazon's search engine has never been known for logical behaviour, at least it found it.

#2 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#53 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction

At 12:43 BST (11:43 UT, 07:43 EDT) on Friday 2010-09-03.

No mention of it in the Manga > Fantasy category, but why it's in Manga at all is a mystery...

(Amazon UK, from whence I have it pre-ordered, doesn't categorise, just says "Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,577,989 in Books". As I don't know what it was earlier I don't know whether people looking on .com made a difference in this ranking.)

And about 12 hours on we have

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #72,748 in Books
#2 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#53 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction

What is this graphic novel stuff, I do wonder....

[verana1111.livejournal.com]

Done; looked at both. Put in cart, but didn't check out due to needing min for free shipping (sorry, I'm cheap ).

[sraun]

I just did this, and got:

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #100,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#2 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > ( L ) > Lee, Sharon
#92 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Manga > Science Fiction

My search was 'carousel tides' - Sharon's book was the #1 match, Sharon's Amazon author page was the #2 match. I would dearly love to know why Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold was the #3 match!