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OMG Conditioned Response has actually been climbing the lists here at Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ overnight!

I'm #1 on the Hottest Science Fiction and Horror Erotica Romance list
I entered that list at 9 and moved right up but there are only 22 books on this list! still can I just say *SQUEEE* for being #1 Hottest SciFi and leave it at that?

I'm also #13 out of 32 Best Dystopian Originals list
and note that this list carries such heavies as Orwell's 1984 at #1 and Huxley's Brave New World at #2 and OMG I'm higher than halfway up that list!! I'm daunted but honored.

The one I really want to move up on is Best Science Fiction by a Female Author
I'm #81 out of 303, so more than a third of the way up but that's where I entered that list so I need votes to move (care to click for me?)

If you've already read this book and want to see Raif back in Book 1, vote for Characters Whose Story You Wish Would Continue
I'm at #86 out of 323 on that one and I added it to that list specifically for people to endorse Raif love. Everyone loves Raif, trust me on this one. Mmmm, Raif.

There are close to 20 lists I'm on so if you have 5 minutes, would you consider clicking a few of those "vote for this book" buttons to support me? Get all the lists from the book's page of lists:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/book/13598337-conditioned-response

KEEP THE VOTES COMING!!

Thanks! :)

Holy crap!!

Just now 2 people voted and I've risen to #5 on the Best Dystopian Originals!!! OMG! Please keep voting. I don't ever intend to get past #4 but only because the list is as follows:

1. 1984 by George Orwell (awesome book)
2. Brave New World by Aldus Huxley (deeeeply influence me in writing my SciFi)
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (I didn't like this so much but Bradbury is a classic master of SciFi)
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (never heard of him or this book - anyone read it?)
5. Conditioned Response by Marjorie F. Baldwin (me)

Can you believe this??! I'm floored! Please do keep voting and let's see if I can rise up behind those 3 immortals.

Wow. My day is now officially "made."

Oh. My. Gawwwwd. Conditioned Response is now up to #4. Yep. It's Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury and... me!

:: faints ::

Thank you for the votes (keep 'em coming! There are more lists and clearly this CAN be done!)

I really want to climb the Science Fiction by Female Authors list but I entered it at 68 and have already climbed to 47 (out of 303 books) so I might've topped out. Why do I give up so easily? The likes of Bujold, Atwood, Cherryh and McCaffrey are above me...then again, I have officially surpassed Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood which I just read and reviewed, saying It's SO much like mine!! We wrote them at the same time; must've been influenced by the same things!"

I'm not entirely sure *I* would vote for my own book above hers, but maybe. Yeah, I think I would. I had issues with hers that took the rating down to 3.5 and I'd give mine a 4.5 (haha yeah, I'd take a 1/2 star off my own book!!)

AHHH yay congrats!!!

congrats!

Thank you! With the Science Fiction by Female Authors List, I doubt I'll go much higher than 47 out of 303. Between Lois McMaster Bujold and C J Cherryh I doubt--holy crap!! I just looked. I am now at 34 out of 303!!

And checking the main lists page for the book, I'm now at 3 out of 51 Best Indie Books to Read in 2012 and have taken over #1 on Human Male [alien female] Mates

I am liking these list actions. Now I need to get more reviews posted to hold the positions' weights steady. More reviews makes each vote count more heavily. Very complicated mathematical formula is used to rank the lists but since I'm a bonafide rocket scientist, I figured it out (haha)

So the list rankings have continued to go up up up! I'm too exhausted to keep linking all of the lists though ;-)

#1 Hottest SciFi
#1 Beach Read for 2012
#1 Human Male (non-human female) Mates
#3 Best Dystopian Original (was #2 ahead of Huxley an hour ago!)
#13 Best Second Chance Romance (Raif + Shayla mmmm)
#19 Best Artificial Intelligence Book
#22 Science Fiction by a Female Author (among the Bujolds!!! *gasp*)
#24 Characters Whose Story You Wish Would Continue
#42 Best Female Protagonist
#65 Best Sci-Fi/Futuristic Romance (this list clearly needs some Friday love!)
#124 (out of 810) Books You Have Read More Than One Time

Okay, I've been on this site for 15 hours straight! I think it's time to quit for the day...I'll be back on Thursday night to see what happened to these list rankings. I wonder if I'll lose any spots or gain some?

OMG, you're list-obsessed! :D
Glad you made it into any list at all... one day I'll be there too!
Now stop obsessing about list ranks (it's like checking your Amazon rankings, you know? ;-)) and go back to writing! ;-)
Congrats! :-D
Barb

Actually, Barb, it's what I SHOULD be doing for my writing. It's called promotional effort, establishing material to use in a PR campaign. NOW that I have rankings, I can proclaim the book is #1 Hottest SciFi or #2 Best Indie Book to Read for 2012. Establishing that kind of credential is definitely part of writing and selling books. It's the business side. SInce I no longer write just for the sheer joy of writing, but rather, for the monetary returns, I definitely have to do this kind of promotional activity. It's a necessary evil if I want to sell books. I spent 40+ years writing and NOT selling books, Now the selling time has come

And now my hamburger (lunch at 1815 hrs) is getting cold :-( That's what I get for eating and doing email at the same time!

p.s. I won't be "going back to writing" until July or August. No time! Plus no place to live in June. I need to sell book prior to April 30th to see any money in June at all. I'm focused on NOT being homeless and living in my car while having my hours cut at the crap job or being threatened with being fired. I need a new job and new place to live. Other than selling books, that's ALL I'm focused on until July.

Not gonna update the list rankings b/c I know it'll annoy Barb :-) but I just got a super-duper 4-star review from a SciFi Aficionado with discerning taste--so the fact he liked this really means something to me given what else I know he does/doesn't like to read.

"...Conditioned Response gripped me hard from the beginning...the pace is relentless..."

Read more of Stephen M. St. Onge's review

Disclaimer, he knows me by my real name from my presence on "the Bar" (Baen Books' online forum) back in 2005-2007 but we haven't spoken since and he's never read anything of mine before. I "cold-called" him (email) to ask if he'd like to read it--and apparently he did!

Stephen put a (also 4 stars, just totally different words). I did actually watch Garp once but I don't recall that line. Must'a been lost from book to movie, huh?

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks

Since I seem to have somehow created 2 threads for this, I've deleted the one below and am just pasting that comment in here.

I'm so excited. I was going to submit Conditioned Response to one of my SciFi Groups (Sci-Fi and Heroic Fantasy) for a monthly group read but self-promo is strictly prohibited outside of a separate folder called "Advertisements" and that wasn't what I wanted to do at all.

So I wrote the Moderator when the June nominations were opened and he just wrote back offering to make Conditioned Response the Secondary Group read for June (like they've done for Ancient Canada in May). I'm pretty excited, as this practically insures a group discussion -- for better or worse ((smirk))

I'd like to personally invite members of Creative Reviews who are interested in SciFi and Fantasy genre to join the Sci-Fi and Heroic Fantasy Group and participate in the group read of my book in June. I'll be offering a Smashwords coupon to allow group members to get the eBook free (probably only for a limited time the first few days of June). Although I want to sell books (duh) I really want to encourage some discussion of the book so it's totally worth giving it away to this targetted group to do that.

Word of caution, as much to myself as to all of you: the group members are way more into High Fantasy Epic Quest type stories than they are into Classic SciFi but they do list Classic SciFi in their charter and the book certainly does fit that bill so ... I guess I'm trying to say, most of the books currently under discussion in the Sci-Fi and Heroic Fantasy Group are NOTHING like Conditioned Response. That may be good, that may be bad. You'll have to judge for yourself.

I hope I don't regret approaching the a group whose primary focus is so different from my genre, but so far, they seem like a great group of people so hopefully, it'll be fun to get Fantasy-friendly eyes on my Classic SciFi book. Who knows? We might cross that great SF to F divide again (haha) I'm sure it'll be a lively discussion anyway. Hope to see some of you there!

p.s. I think Xdyj (one of their mods) is already here and Stephen has followed me over there (or showed up right after crossing paths with me here anyway), so cross-pollination seems to be working :)

Oh and NYKen followed me over to one of the Romantic SF / SFR groups - come on by the Sci-Fi and Heroic Fantasy Group, too, Ken! :)

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-Friday
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