My BookBub Featured Deal went live across the world yesterday. It’s always a little tricky following the numbers really closely, courtesy of the time differences. Here in the UK things got going a little earlier than in the US, and a few sales trickled in, one or two at a time.

Once the US woke up, things became rather more interesting, and I started obsessively refreshing the Amazon sales report page.

454, 515, 645, 749….

Bemusing, though, how the sales rank of the book didn’t update for over half a day. Once it did, though, WOWZERS! By mid evening, THE PRINCE’S MAN had hit #1 in classic fantasy, #2 in dark fantasy, #2 in action adventure fantasy, #5 in the uber-hot main category of epic fantasy, #4 in the equally hot sword and sorcery, and #112 in the entire US store!!!

By the end of the evening, that had changed…