Sales and Signings

A quick post before bed.

Made another sale on Amazon, which is nice. I also signed another copy of HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS over at Waterstone's in Ladenhall Market. I thought they had brought in two copies, but they had in fact brought in three.

The young lady behind the till recognised me this time and gave me a smile and said Hi. I smiled back.

I made a decision about something tonight, too. I'll post about it tomorrow.

Another huge jump!

THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS has climbed an impressive 126,648 sales places this weekend over at the Book Depository (click image below to embiggen).

Its current rank is now 48,217.

This is... well, brilliant. I'm very happy.

Signed copies of the novel are also available at branches of Waterstone's in the UK. Would make a great little stocking filler for someone this Christmas... ;)

More Waterstone's Stock

Got an email this morning that the Ladenhall branch of Waterstone's (located near Bank station in London) has just increased its stock of HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS.

Have they sold out of the original copies they had? Perhaps not; likely they've just got in some more copies which has shoved their stock level from Low up to Medium. As far as I can work out the stock level works something like this.

Low: 1 - 2 copies
Medium: 3+ copies
High: No idea

I'll take a guess that High would be 10 or more copies. The Brighton and Islington branches of Waterstone's had 7 copies of HotK in stock at one point, but were still listed as Medium. Maybe one day one branch will stock 10 copies. Perhaps when Book 2 is out.

More Signed Copies

As promised I took a wander over to the Waterstone's on High Street Kensington and signed the copies of HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS they had in there. Always gives me a nice warm feeling, that does. Especially with the weather we're having.

KDE 4.3 Tip

Running KDE4 and want the KDE3 dialogs back, for things like copying files and that?

Simple. Just edit

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

and under [AppletGlobals][plasma_applet_systemtray] add

ShowJobs=false
ShowNotifications=false

Now just log out and back in again, and enjoy KDE 3 style dialogs.

Stocks and that

A few days ago amazon.co.uk sold out of its copies of HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS, which was nice. They've recently got some more in, which is good, too.

I also found out that the Kensington branch of Waterstone's has also brought in copies of the book. I'll be heading over there tomorrow to sign them.

Book 2 Progress Update

I recently went back across BFTSS:Book 2, tweaking parts and adding in details that were needed.

The whole book now weighs in at 145,000 words, spread across 27 chapters. That's rather a lot. THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS was 128,000 when all was said and done, so this one is 17,000 words longer. This, I suspect, will come down once  it has been to an editor, though.

I also printed out the cover, too, just to see how it came out. The result is quite pleasing: it's a great deal more striking than the HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS, but might need a little bit of tweaking to tone done the colours a touch. I'll do this once I begin to order in real proofs of the book.

I'll upload the cover and reveal the title in the new year.