Friday, 2 August 2024

Prince of Thorns becomes a teenager today!

Prince of Thorns has been on the shelves for thirteen years!

The book is now the same age as Jorg himself is on the first few pages 😮

Worldwide the Prince of Thorns has sold about 1,000,000 copies... and UK paperback has reached at least 30 printings.


I'll take the chance to say thanks - thank you to my readers (and my publishers) for letting me spend the past 13 years writing stories, and more than that - living in them. It's been an unexpected privilege.


In other news, I now have a Patreon. Check it out!



Check out the 12th,11th10th9th8th7th6th5th4th3rd2nd, and 1st birthday round-ups. 



I now have 18 books on the shelves!


The most recent addition was The Book That Broke The World, in April.


Plus we have the short stories, Overdue & Returns.




Being a numbers guy as well as a words guy I like to keep track of things and record them for when I'm doddery and old, looking back at my 'glory' days.

In the past year my books have added 54,158 ratings on Goodreads!
The site has recovered somewhat, so I can show you the first page of my author dashboad as I've traditionally done.
 

Prince of Thorns -- 3.84 -- 116,437
King of Thorns -- 4.18 -- 67,066
Emperor of Thorns -- 4.23 -- 54,337
Prince of Fools -- 4.05 -- 33,373
The Liar's Key -- 4.24 -- 20,608
The Wheel of Osheim -- 4.32 -- 17,072
Red Sister -- 4.17 -- 58,711
Grey Sister - 4.36 -- 35,343
Holy Sister -- 4.31 -- 28,762
Road Brothers (both versions) -- 4.27 -- 3,176
One Word Kill -- 3.75 -- 20,249
Limited Wish -- 4.04 -- 7,531
Dispel Illusion -- 4.23 -- 5,915
The Girl And The Stars -- 3.81 -- 11,470
The Girl And The Mountain -- 4.14 -- 6,020
The Girl And The Moon -- 4.25 -- 4,527
The Book That Wouldn't Burn -- 4.05 -- 20,916
The Book That Broke The World -- 4.10 -- 4,728


This blog continues to chug along. Blogs seem to be a dying means of communication, with most people prefering the immedacy of social media. Should reach 5 million hits this year.




Twitter seems too big to fail, so my quest to conquer it crawls on! Look, Elon wants me to "get verified". He can get...



It's also worth noting that this year has seen the release of the individual 10th anniversary special editions of The Broken Empire books from Grim Oak Press (US) and Broken Binding (UK). 

You can now pre-order the special limited 10th anniversary edition of Prince of Fools from Grim Oak Press - leather bound goodness with interior art from the original cover artist Jason Chan.


Where things stand with my special editions:

Grim Oak Press
The Broken Empire omnibus - SOLD OUT
The Red Queen's War omnibus - SOLD OUT
10th anniversary Prince of Thorns - SOLD OUT

Broken Binding
10th anniversary Prince of Thorns - SOLD OUT

If you want to see how they appreciate, try buying a copy of the sold out editions on ebay.


Well, that's my annual stock-take. Over & out, until next year.


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3 comments:

  1. I just happen to be re-reading Prince of thorns as this blog post came out, which led me here to see what's going on. I love everything broken empire and have read all the books and the road brothers. I would give my left (not my right) nut for you to return to that world with another trilogy. I think its time! Please! Anyway, love the books, thank you for your work.

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  2. Doing a re-read of Prince of Thorns as we speak, which led me here to see what was new. It's even better on re-read. I love all things broken empire and I would love if you ever returned with more stories of the road brothers (preferably a new trilogy!). Thank you.

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  3. Sorry for the double post, feel free to remove one.

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