And then this happened…
Last Thursday night, just before turning in, I thought I’d check how my ebook sales were doing on Amazon…
Hm, said I. I just looked around lunchtime, but now there’s, like… three times as many units sold. That’s a puzzle.
And I went to bed.
The next day I did a Google search for the previous 24 hours, and this came up on Twitter:
Completely unexpected.
@femfreq is the Feminist Frequency web series, founded by Anita Sarkeesian. The series examines how women are represented in popular literature, media, and especially (as –let’s say — you just possibly have heard) gaming.
I had no idea that Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency knew of my work at all… This is quite a nice endorsement. I immediately tweeted back my thanks.
It’s really encouraging how many people have said nice things about my books (including, by the way, most of you!).  It helped boost me when I was ill, and helps sustain me now.
So,to all of you (not just Anita, and Jo and Chad…) — my thanks.
May 8th, 2015 at 1:26 pm
Yay! And I ran across a discussion on women sf/f writers and you were recommended by someone; the blog author said “great, someone new to me but I’ll check her out.” Either on Metafilter or The Toast, can’t remember. Hooray for Anita (in all respects).
May 8th, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Steerswoman is one of my favorite series, and I actively recommend it to all my friends. So wonderful to see it getting the attention it deserves! 🙂
May 11th, 2015 at 9:27 am
Sweet! There are a handful of writers whose work I think is criminally underrecognized, yours among them; I’m glad she gave you a shout-out. Hopefully her less humane hangers-on will not get ideas.