Woohoo! Got my first sale today on the 2nd day of the 99p offer!
Now, for most of you that might sound a tad trivial... Yet, for me - & considering the amount of times I have re-designed covers, re-branded, etc - this is quite the feat! So, I have just today pulled together a (I hope) better blurb. & the creatives I have used in the Ads are already getting a good CTR, CPC, etc (despite the fact that I set up the campaign wrong yesterday & had to re-calibrate it at 10am this morning!). Here is the updated blurb: He’s hunting a traitor. There’s just one problem: it might be him. 1791. Switzerland. Conspiracy tears through the Confederacy. War is inevitable. A saviour is needed. Instead, we get... well... a pompous idiot who’d rather complain about his wardrobe and water-gruel. Amidst the Alps and anarchy, a nameless fugitive races for Zürich, clutching a scroll that could stop it all. Alas, a blow to the head erases his past, his purpose... and — nay! — his common sense, too. Now washed up in a rural backwater hell, and stripped of his silks and sanity, he’s convinced of one thing alone: he is meant for a life of exquisite luxury, not shovelling dung. Natch, his past comes a-calling. Beyond the domestic drudgery, mercenaries, cantonal guards, and a looming French invasion are all closing in. And so, as he bumbles through ambushes, lock-ups, and disasters aplenty, the ultimate irony is revealed: the WANTED posters bear a phiz suspiciously his own. Insufferable, blundering, and ludicrously bold, he might — just might — change the course of history... provided his colossal vanity doesn’t doom them all first. “Glory, jest, and riddle of the world!” — Alexander Pope For fans of rich historical, picaresque adventure served with the sharp wit and chaotic farce of the literary classics. A compass, not a comparison: blending the satirical cadence of Henry Fielding and the swashbuckling thrills of Alexandre Dumas with the deadpan absurdity of Patrick deWitt, expect slow-burn 18th-century intrigue, morally messy families, and a protagonist who has to earn every inch of ground.