Ah, it was the first of the month again. Time flew so fast.
I was starting to regret setting up this whole monthly wrap-up thing. After a hard day, I had finally finished the day's updates, and it was already ten thirty. Now I still had to write a standalone post, and my brain felt completely empty.
Overall, March had been looking up. I started the month with a bonus chapter for monthly votes, shamelessly squeezed into the top thirty on the monthly vote rankings, then slowly slid down and finished the month in fiftieth place.
Compared with my previous results, I was very satisfied.
The bestseller ranking improved too, especially after the title change... Although the general opinion was that people disliked the new title, the number of readers adding the book to their libraries really did increase in the backend.
At the beginning of last month, when I was still in the top thirty on the monthly vote rankings, I was gaining at most seven or eight hundred library adds a day, rarely more than nine hundred.
After the title change, I had already fallen into the forties on the monthly vote rankings, so my exposure should have decreased, yet somehow I was getting over a thousand library adds every day.
Later on, there were even a day or two when this book's bestseller ranking surpassed its monthly vote ranking.
In my past experience, it was normal for a book's bestseller ranking and monthly vote ranking to be roughly the same. With my previous books, the bestseller ranking was always much higher than the monthly vote ranking, but for this book's first few months, its monthly vote ranking was higher than its bestseller ranking.
I generally felt that this meant either the monthly vote ranking was inflated, or