Debut novel takes Amazon's number two ranking in political fiction in Australia

Source: Digital Strategies
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Debut novel takes Amazon's number two ranking in political fiction in Australia

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 4, 2017/NewsWorksNZ-AsiaNet/ --

A Line Too Far, a debut novel by author Barry Colman, has taken Amazon's number two ranking in political fiction in Australia.

Digital Strategies principal, Martin Taylor, said the thriller had now also made it to the top one hundred political thrillers list on every Amazon English-speaking site.

Mr Taylor said the story line was set in Australia and based on a political crisis erupting after a lightning, overnight invasion by Chinese elite forces of vast, sparsely-populated, resource-rich areas of northern Australia.

The Australian Prime Minister is issued an ultimatum to agree to new borders in ten days or face full scale war. New Zealand inevitably becomes embroiled in the confrontation.

The author, writing under B.C.Colman, is the former publisher of the National Business Review, who has homes on the Gold Coast and in Auckland. He was a former staff reporter on the Sunday Mail and Brisbane Courier-Mail before launching his own successful business and real estate classified newspapers in New Zealand.

Mr Taylor said Colman was unable to interest a mainstream publisher and the sales had been achieved without the book being available in any book store outlets yet in Australia. Only the independent Time Out bookshop in Mt Eden, Auckland, currently had it on its shelves in New Zealand.

Mr Taylor said Digital Strategies had promoted the book through social media outlets and had been thrilled it was now also in the top ten political best sellers the UK where it had reached number nine - one place below John Grisham's latest release, The Confession.

Meanwhile A Line Too Far had gathered fans in the huge USA market where it had risen in the last week from number 77 to number 12 in its category. In neighbouring Canada it had reached number 38. The book was selling digital and print formats.

He said the book had received high praise from most reviewers and was rated at four and a half stars on the Amazon site.

"The ratings for an unknown author have been impressive. It's attracting far more international sales than we had expected. It seems to have taken off," he said. "I think the subject matter has hit a nerve among a lot of readers and it's an exceptionally fast-paced thriller."

Digital Strategies had created a site at bccolman.com which carried free sample chapters.

MARTIN TAYLOR CONTACT: +64 9 529 9573

Or martin@digitalstrategies.co.nz

SOURCE: Digital Strategies

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