After failing three rounds of promotional contests, I'm out of options. There are too many top authors in the queue, so I can't get another recommendation slot. The only thing left to do is put the book on sale.
To be honest, reaching this point has left me with some incredibly mixed feelings.
If you judge by the number of bookmarks, this is my second-worst performing book out of the six I've published.
The absolute worst was a Naruto fanfiction from seven or eight years ago. It was my first contracted book to go on sale, and it's since been taken down.
That was my debut work. The first-day subscriptions were in the single digits, and by the time I finished it at 700,000 characters, the average subscription count was just over a hundred.
My second, third, fourth, and even fifth books had their ups and downs, but before going on sale, they all had over 13,000 bookmarks. My best one, a cultivation novel, had between sixty and seventy thousand when it was published.
