Revisions, Stocks and Sales Ranks

Yesterday I got started on the final set of revisions (for now) for Book 2. I had a few notes that I needed to tweak into the text, and though I thought it might take a day or so, it only took a couple of hours. I also ran a grammar check through the manuscript (being a Kubuntu user I use Open Office, which doesn't have a built in grammar checker). It found a number of errors, such as a instead of an, duplicate words and stuff like that. Nice to see that Free grammar tools are getting better. I'll start revisiting chapters today, which I marked as being overwritten.

Aside from that I also noticed that the Bedford branch of Waterstone's has now got stock of HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS. Sadly I won't be able to sign these copies, since they are a little out of my way, but it's nice to see that the circulation of the novel is improving. Hopefully there will be some more stocking at other branches... which reminds me: I must find out what the deal with the Piccadilly Circus stock is.

HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS' sales rank on Book Depository remains active, hovering around the 150,000 mark. I'm actually not too sure what that really means: Every day or so, the sales rank has climbed a few places. The Amazon sales rank also climbs a little, too; but only by a few hundred places. So, I'm not sure whether sales are occurring or if its gremlins. Hopefully the former.

Rather annoyingly, Lulu reported 0 sales for October. I happen to know this is wrong, since Waterstone's bought in at least 5 copies, so they would have registered. I think it might take a while for Lightning Source to register the sales, though.

Anyhow, onwards.