Thanks for the kind words, everybody–As @hustlertwo wrote here (and in that very good new topic), it’s not really realistic for me to expect incredible success writing in a genre I know is unpopular on my second HG (after my first one at 43k words or whatever was very much not destined for success either). The ratings will likely rebound somewhat after the first week but i’m unlikely to build a mansion with the revenue and that’s kind of a tough realization for something i poured most of my free time over eight months into. But I could have avoided this from the first time i put pen to paper and chose a genre, so i’ll be thankful for whatever success Interstellar Airgap does enjoy and maybe I’ll “write to market” a little more with my next piece.
It doesn’t really make sense for me to whine about the slings and arrows of app store reviews or low sales or whatever when I could have simply not written in an unpopular genre. My writing still has plenty of room for improvement. Airgap was a story I really wanted to write and I’m really proud of it, but I know that doesn’t always translate to commercial success. I’ll take the lessons and figure out my strategy for the next project–there’s nothing wrong with being honest about wanting to sell a lot of copies (which is not something I realized I wanted to measure myself by when I started writing, but for my next project I very much do lol).