Good launch

Here’s a good reason to use Publisher Rocket:

Amazon’s algorithm changes were announced just before I was ready to launch my American Civil War novel Born of This Fire (hereafter known as BOTF). Everything was ready a week in advance, including keywords and categories selected with the help of Publisher Rocket.

Happily for me, I learned more about Rocket by taking a refresher seminar on it just days before my launch. Armed with new information, I tweaked my book description and changed my keywords and categories 36 hours before launch. As a result, with a newsletter list of only 1500 people and 4 reviews posted on launch day, BOTF quickly ranked #1 for two of the three very specific categories I’d selected: Abolition History and US military regiments.

It never even got near the top 100 for Historical Romance, a category with huge competition that (unfortunately) best describes my novel. But ranking for those other two has prompted Amazon to show it to more people.

I hope you’re encouraged by this story. Even without huge newsletter lists and dozens of reviews, things worked out for me. I hope they do for you, too!