Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#190 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#1 in Books > Romance > Regency
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Historical Romance > Regency
#3 in Books > Romance > Historical
Month: May 2014
Friday brags! #330 in Kindle Store!
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#330 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#3 in Books > Romance > Regency
#3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Historical Romance > Regency
#9 in Books > Romance > Historical
I am #565 in Kindle Store!
I am so happy to announce that my book, The Duke’s Holiday, is eating up the charts! In one week, I have sold a thousand books. This is unexpected, to say the least. I did not think it would do this well when I decided to publish it on Amazon. Thanks to all who have purchased this book and enjoyed it.
Stay tuned for news about the second installment in The Regency Romp series.
More bragging about The Duke’s Holiday
More bragging about my new historical.
I think The Duke’s Holiday is placing higher than Prince of Hearts ever did. My goal is to be below 1000 in the Kindle Store!
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,137 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#19 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Historical Romance > Regency
#20 in Books > Romance > Regency
#51 in Books > Romance > Historical
Best Review Ever!
I just had a great review for The Duke’s Holiday! Please check it out on my Amazon page or read it here!
REVIEW BELOW BY J. CRISPIN:
Let me start with the two things I did not like about this book…
1) I had things to do over the last day and a half. Laundry. Cleaning my kitchen. Making my family dinner. And none of that got done because of this novel.
2) I too am a debut author of Regency romance, with a book, Once Upon A Wager, out this week. And I really liked my book, until I read this one.
Here is the bald truth. If you buy only one book today, it should not be mine. It should be The Duke’s Holiday, because it is a laugh-out-loud, frolicking fun fest.
Ms. Fenton has crafted a completely original and unpredictable story. Her hero, Lord Cyril Montford, starts out as one of the biggest prigs to ever grace the Regency stage. He has OCD, faints at the sight of blood, and vomits every time he gets into a carriage (although he has a heartrendingly good excuse.) Her heroine, Astrid Honeywell, is “utterly, completely hideous, with ungodly eyes and horrible spots” (and that’s quoting Cyril.) Yet by the end of the story, I loved them both dearly. Layer by layer, they become more complex, more insecure, and more human.
And the story surrounding them was just hilarious. Any author who can seamlessly interject the word codswallop into their work has a gift, so I will let Ms. Fenton’s words speak for themselves. Here are few of my favorite quotes:
“It is one thing to read scandalous verse, quite another to disguise it behind lofty pretense. Thomas More indeed.” (Cyril, upon finding a racy tract Astrid had tucked into a book by, you guessed it, Thomas More.)
“His eyes surveyed her as he would some rare species of poisoned fauna.”
“Oh God…she was about to become the hapless heroine in her own personal melodrama.” (Astrid, upon being abducted)
“The vicar was a stutterer. It made Sunday mornings a true test of Christian fortitude.”
“His hands fell away, and he stepped back, out of the circle of her skirts, and the heat of her body. It was like stepping out of an enchantment.” (This is a romance, after all.)
“A bounder of a French aristocrat had picked her up in Marseilles, where she’d washed ashore, and introduced her to the bawdy Bourbon Court, where she had thrived on petty intrigue and decadence until the peasantry began chopping off heads.” (This from dotty Aunt Anabel.)
That last one was my personal favorite. Honestly, I defy any author to pack a better character sketch into a single sentence.
This book is a crazy mix of Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde stirred up in a cocktail shaker, with a shot of Monty Python thrown in for good measure. I wish I could be a British citizen for just today, so I could say “this is bloody brilliant” with some measure of authenticity.
The Duke’s Holiday now available for only $2.99 on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Dukes-Holiday-Regency-Romp-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00K6YYJAC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1399593940&sr=1-1&keywords=Dukes+holiday Book One in The Regency Romp Trilogy The Duke of Montford, cold, precise, and more powerful than the Prince Regent himself, wants things the way he wants them: cross-referenced, … Continue reading The Duke’s Holiday now available for only $2.99 on Amazon.
Maggie Fenton 