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Near Record Set! 2nd Most Visited Day

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We had the second-most visits ever on Friday, May 1, 2015! HUZZAH!

We had the second-most visits ever on Friday, May 1, 2015! HUZZAH!

I was flabbergasted! I checked on the statistics for this site last week — who doesn’t like to know how often people are checking in and reading something you have to say? — and guess what? There were 135 visits to the site on Friday, May 1! That is the second most busy day we have ever had here at stephenmorrisauthor.com! The most popular post on May 1 was the one featuring the Lily of the Valley, the Folkloric “flower of the month” for May.

Another surprise was that 100+ of those visits on May 1 were from readers in France! 🙂

What was the #1 most busy day, you might wonder? That was April 4, 2014 when we had 145 visits — only 10 more visits than last week! The most popular post on that day was the one about Emerald, the traditional birthstone/gem of May. May folklore certainly seems to be popular! (These two posts are generally among the most popular in the archives here but the daily visits rarely reach into the stratospheric heights recorded on April 4 last year and May 1 last week!

I also discovered last week that there are 78 readers who follow my blog through the Goodreads website. (That’s in addition to the 400+ readers who follow the blog via Facebook.) It was great to see how many people follow the blog through so many different venues. I’m amazed!

Best Selling Book Genres

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Best selling book genres illustrated

Best selling book genres illustrated

I found this chart online and thought it illustrated a fascinating breakdown of the book markets. The best selling genres are clearly presented and if one has a crossover title — a book that appears in two or more categories, such as the Harry Potter books are both “fantasy” and “children’s fiction” — then a runaway bestseller is more likely. Where does Come Hell or High Water fall in this pie chart? Well, there’s “historical fiction” as well as “fantasy fiction.” So maybe that New York Times bestseller list isn’t so far away, after all!

How Am I Doing?

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The post about EMERALD was the most viewed post of 2014. Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May, as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Taurus, Gemini and sometimes Cancer. Astrologers also consider emerald a gem of the planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.

The post about EMERALD was the most viewed post of 2014. Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May, as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Taurus, Gemini and sometimes Cancer. Astrologers also consider emerald a gem of the planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.

To kick off the new year, I’d like to share with you data on this site’s activity in 2014.

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Visitors to this site came from 160 different countries.

The busiest day of the year was April 4th with 145 views. The most popular post that day was Emerald, which was also the most frequently viewed post throughout the year. The other most popular posts were:

Daffodil, the flower of March
Lily of the Valley
Marigold, the “birth slower” of October
St. John’s Wort