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Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday’s total was 18 books and my book ranking has also improved markedly.\u00a0 Overall rank now close to 20,000 and categories in the top 100s!\u00a0 Look out Tom Clancy (or whoever the new alive guy is).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Well, things are looking up.\u00a0 So far today, I’ve sold ten copies and pretty soon I’ll reach a hundred sales.\u00a0 Cool!<\/p>\n

And I broke through the 40,000 overall rank in Kindle Store and the 200’s in some major categories (see below)<\/p>\n

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And so now that some momentum is building up I’d like to make one last plea (on bended knee mind you)<\/strong><\/em> for anyone who liked the book to put a good review up on Amazon.\u00a0 You can use any name you like and you don’t even need to have bought the book.\u00a0 Just tell the world why you liked it and help me become independently wealthy ( or at least cheer up a poor hard-working author.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your attention.<\/p>\n

Jake Barter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Update: Yesterday’s total was 18 books and my book ranking has also improved markedly.\u00a0 Overall rank now close to 20,000 and categories in the top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,5,1289,818,1263,237,4,242],"tags":[5147,1290,265,4484],"class_list":["post-36212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-current-events","category-fiction-by-me","category-ocf","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-book-reviews","tag-book-marketing","tag-my-fiction","tag-science-fiction","tag-the-american-archipelago-book-1-the-sniper"],"yoast_head":"\n03MAR2026 - Sales Update and Begathon - 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