Short story sale and Yseult rankings

Getting late here in Central Europe, but I’ve got some news before I head off to bed: I sold another short story to Daily Science Fiction today, “The Magician of Words.” It’s an odd little piece, to my way of thinking more like a prose poem than a story proper, but then, the other story I sold to them was based on a poem, so maybe it’s a pattern.

Yseult is doing quite well on its final free promotion, although it doesn’t look like it’s going to break into the top 100 Free Kindle Store overall this time. The best I saw earlier today (before the Amazon US glitch that disappeared all the buy buttons and the rankings for about an hour) was #136. It was also #1 in Arthurian Fantasy, #2 in Historical Fantasy, and #7 in Fantasy overall. It’s still #1 in Arthurian Fantasy, but it’s dropped in all the other rankings, and it’s only free for a few more hours. Ce la vie. Hopefully this will get me a few more sales anyway.

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About Ruth Nestvold

Ruth Nestvold's short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian. She maintains a web site at www.ruthnestvold.com.

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9 Responses to Short story sale and Yseult rankings

KM Huber says:

March 27, 2012 at 10:37 pm

Congratulations on placing your prose poem/story. Please let know when it’s published as I would love to read it. Sleep well.

Karen

- Ruth Nestvold says:
  
  March 28, 2012 at 10:59 am
  
  Thanks, Karen! I’ll post the publication date once I know when it will be.
  
badonicus says:

March 28, 2012 at 4:34 am

Congratulations Ruth. I’ll try and get to read it when I have some free time.

Mak

- Ruth Nestvold says:
  
  March 28, 2012 at 12:14 pm
  
  Thanks, Mak! I hope you enjoy it.
  
Widdershins says:

March 28, 2012 at 5:37 pm

WTG on your sale … they’ve turned me down a couple of times, but I’m a stubborn sort!

- Ruth Nestvold says:
  
  March 28, 2012 at 9:02 pm
  
  You have to be in this business! Good luck.
  
Christina says:

March 29, 2012 at 2:09 am

Hi Ruth,
I own a Kobo instead of a Kindle, so I look forward to seeing “Yseult” on Smashwords. Nancy Fulda recommended your writing to me, and I can’t wait to take a look!

- badonicus says:
  
  March 29, 2012 at 4:59 am
  
  Christina, you can always download Kindle for your computer and read it there.
  
  Mak
  
- Ruth Nestvold says:
  
  March 29, 2012 at 12:31 pm
  
  Thanks, Christina! I’m hoping to get Yseult up on Smashwords the beginning of April.