A Good Week For Lost Solace ~ Karl Drinkwater

Lost Solace at #3 in the UK's top 100 sci-fi adventure novels on
Amazon - just after Artemis by the awesome Andy Weir!

It's been a good week for Lost Solace, especially in the UK. It may have reached a higher place in the charts before I got round to taking a screenshot, but these are the best rankings I grabbed evidence for:

Top ten in at least three categories. According to my Amazon dashboard, Lost Solace got to #161 overall out of millions of e-books in the UK store.

The recent Amazon ratings were probably down to a mixture of factors.

A new book, in a genre with voracious readers (quality action/suspense sci-fi).
Another exciting high-profile book was released at the same time by pure chance with a similar cover (Artemis by Andy Weir).
Lost Solace was at the promotional price of $0.99 for a week, even though it is new.
A few authors and sci-fi fans mentioned the promo in their newsletters.
I received excellent early reviews on high-profile sites and from a few book bloggers.
And probably the biggest boost: I got my second Bookbub featured deal for 28th November. This one was international-only, so excluded the US, which is why I did well in the UK rankings but didn’t see such a spectacular shift in the US.