Well, the last thing I expected this morning was to wake up and find Sugar & Spice number 1 in English speaking Police procedurals on Amazon Germany, above the great and vociferous Konrath!
But hey, it’s been a crazy few months, I guess anything can happen! 😉
Posted by Saffina Desforges/Stevie Jordan on May 28, 2011
https://saffinadesforgesblog.com/2011/05/28/konrath-blake-who/
Huh? Someone wake me up. Has all of this been one big, fat dream?
Today is a pretty special day for us.
One that we were never sure we would actually see and certainly not one where we expected to be in the position we are in today!
Sugar & Spice has been in the Top 100 for 100 days.
You have no idea how crazy that sentence is.
Less than 200 days ago, Sugar & Spice was on our hard drive and floating around in cyber-space, back and forth between Mark and myself. No-one had ever heard of it or us. Saffina Desforges was a complete unknown.
Our sales (since January) are rapidly approaching 60,000. We are #1 in 6 categories and have been in the Top 5 Kindle Paid Store for over 5 weeks now. We have survived battles with well-known, traditionally published authors, books from current TV serials and massive literary forces that are Stieg Larsson, Gordon Ferris and Stephen Leather et al.
We have also had contact this week from some rather big players in the world of literary agency representation.
We have had 137 reviews so far – 77% of them are 4 stars and above. We are not far off 100 5 star reviews. Here’s a couple of the latest ones:
Sugar & Spice should soon be available on Waterstones, Tesco and iTunes too.
Today, work on Snow White, Book one of The Rose Red Crime series is thundering along at an alarming pace and we should be previewing its new cover in the next two weeks, ready for a summer release.
Equilibrium is next for the SD team, something for Halloween and Christmas for your Kindle.
The project list gets larger and more adventurous every day.
It’s been a crazy ride. I wonder what I will be posting 100 days from now?
Thanks for coming along with us!
Saffi
Posted by Saffina Desforges/Stevie Jordan on May 19, 2011
https://saffinadesforgesblog.com/2011/05/19/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-saffina-desforges-100-days-later/
This review/email was in my inbox when I got home from work:
Makes it all worthwhile…
😉
Saffi
Posted by Saffina Desforges/Stevie Jordan on May 17, 2011
https://saffinadesforgesblog.com/2011/05/17/the-real-gatekeepers/
Hi!
It’s been a few days since I blogged (and for very good reason, books don’t write themselves you know) and I thought I might just put up a random update;
We have just hit 50,000 sales for Sugar & Spice on Amazon alone since January 2011. That is pretty incredible considering we set ourselves a target of 150 a month from March!
Last month alone, we sold just under 21,000 books in the UK. Just wait a second while that statement sinks in…
The US edition of the book Sugar & Spice (.com) Sugar & Spice (UK) is slowly starting to take off too. We can now say that we have 2 books in the Top 100 charts on Amazon UK!
We had a very exciting phone call last night too. More on that at a later date.
We are hoping to have Book One of the Rose Red Series – Snow White released by the end of July. Check back here for a sneak preview of the new cover in the coming few weeks; in the meantime, you can drop in on Ella’s blog for some juicy goss: Rose Red the inside story
On top of all that, as soon as Snow White goes live, we will be completing Equilibrium: First Blood Book One of a dark, adult, Urban fantasty trilogy.
Phew, did I miss anything??
Some people say that writing is a solitary pastime. Well not for me it isn’t, not with a co-writer and so many characters to keep me company.
One hundred and thirty four days ago, nobody even knew we had written a book, now look!
They also say that you should stick to one genre – I say, “I have never done as I was told.”
Watch this space…
😉
PS. Look out for a forthcoming article in The Sunday Telegraph mentioning Sugar & Spice.
Posted by Saffina Desforges/Stevie Jordan on May 12, 2011
https://saffinadesforgesblog.com/2011/05/12/saffina-desforges-what-is-she-doing/
Well, Lord only knows how, but we managed yet another top 5 spot!
Apparently, we are now #4 in English Police Procedurals on the new Amazon.de (German) site!
Posted by Saffina Desforges/Stevie Jordan on April 28, 2011
https://saffinadesforgesblog.com/2011/04/28/zucker-spice/
Saffina Desforges 