For the stats curious, here are some of the top posts and search terms for 2010.
Posts:
1. Getting Women
2. Genre Diversity
3. Show Don’t Tell, And Other Myths
4. Travels & Embargoes
5. Cover Art For The Book of Transformations – You Decide
6. Sexual Healing
7. City of Ruin: UK Paperback Cover Art
8. The Fiction Of Neal Asher’s Science
9. New Cover: The Book of Transformations
10. Fantasy Names
Search terms:
1. mark charan newton (top search by a long way)
2. fantasy names
3. mark c newton
4. mark newton
5. nights of villjamur
6. mark charon newton
7. kowloon walled city
8. prypiat
9. mark charan newton blog
10. show don’t tell
A little duller, this one, but for those of you who like to analyse these things at an industry level, note how the book doesn’t feature that highly for the searches – it’s more about the author as an entity/brand/whatever. It just goes to show that authors should really have some internet presence, since people are indeed very interested in them. I’m sure publishing types can use this as a stick to beat reluctant authors.
What I don’t understand is how “Shakin Stevens Lookalike Available Kids Parties” didn’t make the top ten.
I run that as a separate website; it keeps things easier that way. Then I’m not signing books “Love, Shakin’ ” and so on.
“Mark Charon Newton” is pretty cool. When do you set up the alter-ego Twitter feed as the New Weird Novelist of Hades?
I wonder if I’d be more commercial if I just had “Charon” on the front of my books? Worth a try…