The book is in the top 2,000 or so overall in the Amazon sales rankings, and currently at #15 in Westerns. Each of the books in this series, with similar covers, is ranks in the top 20k or so. The cover designer must be doing something right!
Complete non sequitur. A book can be popular for reasons other than the cover; Dundee’s written an awful lot of novels, and by accounts (I haven’t read any yet) they’re pretty good. A good fanbase can account for a lot of sales, and rightly so. That doesn’t therefore mean that this cover is any good.
Naaman Brown
9 years ago
For what it’s worth, the author’s name has been in the Wikipedia “List of Western fiction authors” since May 2012. About 160 or so names “a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre”.
I’ll hazard the guess that people would buy his book because they know his name or his prior works, not because the cover would sell the book to a new buyer over other westerns with more professional covers. If one has an established readership, who needs to attract new readers?
L-Plate Pen
9 years ago
So, according to the sub line ‘Revenge is best served cold – except when it’s best served hot?’ Mmmm okay, cheers for that…
I was about to call that quote an anachronism from the line “Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold” in the 1949 movie “Kind Hearts and Coronets”–where most people remember hearing it first. But the line “And then revenge is very good eaten cold, as the vulgar say” is in the english translation of Eugène Sue’s novel “Memoirs of Matilda” published in 1846. (Did a little search before posting.) So “revenge cold dish” — it could have been a catch phrase in the Western days. I just would not have used that line in the Long Branch Saloon myself.
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The book is in the top 2,000 or so overall in the Amazon sales rankings, and currently at #15 in Westerns. Each of the books in this series, with similar covers, is ranks in the top 20k or so. The cover designer must be doing something right!
Complete non sequitur. A book can be popular for reasons other than the cover; Dundee’s written an awful lot of novels, and by accounts (I haven’t read any yet) they’re pretty good. A good fanbase can account for a lot of sales, and rightly so. That doesn’t therefore mean that this cover is any good.
For what it’s worth, the author’s name has been in the Wikipedia “List of Western fiction authors” since May 2012. About 160 or so names “a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre”.
I’ll hazard the guess that people would buy his book because they know his name or his prior works, not because the cover would sell the book to a new buyer over other westerns with more professional covers. If one has an established readership, who needs to attract new readers?
So, according to the sub line ‘Revenge is best served cold – except when it’s best served hot?’ Mmmm okay, cheers for that…
I was about to call that quote an anachronism from the line “Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold” in the 1949 movie “Kind Hearts and Coronets”–where most people remember hearing it first. But the line “And then revenge is very good eaten cold, as the vulgar say” is in the english translation of Eugène Sue’s novel “Memoirs of Matilda” published in 1846. (Did a little search before posting.) So “revenge cold dish” — it could have been a catch phrase in the Western days. I just would not have used that line in the Long Branch Saloon myself.