Book 3 Live on Amazon (+ Please rate it, it would make me very happy)

Hi hello, all! It's a very big day for the series!

Book 3 is now live on Amazon. Woohoo!

As most of you will be aware, this book launch is a bit special, as it's the first book I've published since quitting my job to write full time. That also means it's very important for me, as it's going to serve as a good litmus test for how viable it is to keep writing as a career. All that to say: The success of this launch matters a lot to me!

If you're reading this, then you're already supporting my writing career a bunch by being a Patron, and you've more than given enough already. If you'd still like to snag a copy of the book for yourself, though, you can do so here, and I will be forever thankful and greatful.

As a free option to support the series, it'd also mean a bunch if you found the time to leave a rating or review on Amazon. You do not need to have bought the book to do this, and as you've all read book three, you're all eligible to do so. In the case of a rating, I'm pretty sure the entire process is just three clicks -- pretty much as low-effort and fast as it gets!

In that vein, I will give the usual Amazon spiel which you may have heard from other authors by now: Pretty much anything beneath a 4.5 star rating on Amazon will get the book hidden from Amazon promotions and signal bad things to readers, so please keep that in mind! A five-star rating on Amazon largely means "I liked this book enough that I think people should see it and read it" whereas a four-star rating and below are various degrees of saying "this book should be downranked/people should not read or buy this."

It's a kind of annoying system, especially if you like using ratings to compare how much you like different books, but I think it's always good to keep in mind. This is quadruply true if it's a smaller/independent book like this, as ratings pretty much single-handedly determine if the book and series sells or tanks (and whether I have to get a day job again). More than that, the version on Amazon is considerably more polished, so if you're on the fence between any ratings, I'm hoping that whatever you think needs some work has already been fixed in the published version. If you do want to give a harsher review or use the star system to compare your favorite books, a Royal Road review is a pretty good place to do so. Ratings spiel, over!

As for what's next, my next big goal for the rest of the year is to see this series talked about a bit more on all the various LitRPG and Progression Fantasy outlets. In particular, really hoping to see this title name-dropped more whenever people make posts on r/litrpg and r/ProgressionFantasy looking for book recommendations. Or more concretely, I'm really hoping to see the series on at least one of the "tier lists" that people seem to be posting a lot on those. Here's hoping this is the book that kicks some of that off, and wish me luck!

That's about all I got! As always, a major thank you to all of you for supporting this series. I'll probably be spending all of today hopping between various sites to post about the launch and anxiously checking the sales reports and ratings as they roll in, but it looks like I'll manage to get through this without an admin week. Slowly building up a backlog again, and with any luck, I'll be back here posting about a book four launch not too far in the future.

Next chapter Thursday, and don't forget to leave a rating or review if you can! Thanks all!