The 2009 Year in Review

This time last year I took a look at my most popular posts of 2008. Carrying on that tradition, I'd like to do the same for 2009 with a few extras this time around.

As dictated by Google Analytics, here are my most popular posts for the year 2009:

1. Tor Free E-books: The Complete List
2. E-Book File Formats
3. Microsoft Office Live Workspace
4. Book Review: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold
5. Sell Your E-books in the Amazon Kindle Store
6. How much does the Kindle 2 really cost?
7. The nook: More competition for Amazon's Kindle
8. Selling Your E-Book Without a Publisher, Part 5: Smashwords
9. Amazon's Kindle 2 to Launch February 24
10. How much do you make selling through Amazon's Kindle store?

No surprise that the word "free" appears at the top of the list. I'm also not surprised to see my E-Book File Formats post in the list; that post has steadily been gaining views since I published it and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it in the overall top 10 (see next list) sometime soon (it's #25 now).

Next, I want to take a look at the overall most popular posts as of EOY 2009:

1. Tor Free E-books: The Complete List (8,282)
2. Book Review: The Soldier Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb (5,602)
3. Has the fantasy genre become stagnant? (4,790)
4. Tor Free E-book: Old Man's War by John Scalzi (4,451)
5. Weekend Links - 7/3/08 (4,034)
6. How Much Time Should Professional Writers Spend Blogging? (3,976)
7. Tor Free E-Book: Starfish by Peter Watts (3,787)
8. Locus Online: 2007 Cover Art Gallery (3,646)
9. Recommended Reference - The Synonym Finder (3,451)
10. How Long Is Too Long? (3,161)

It'll be interesting to do a comparison next year to see if these posts remain in the top 10.

In closing, there's a few other things I would like to note to assuage my ego if nothing else:

• Total number of posts at EOY: 219 (including this one)
• Total number of posts written in 2009: 64
• Total number of views for all posts: 209,863
• Average posts/month: 5.3
• Book Reviews for 2009:
  • The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
  • The Alchemist's Apprentice by Dave Duncan
  • Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
  • The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl by Tim Pratt
  • Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
  • Heldenhammer by Graham McNeill
  • Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold

That's all I've got.

Happy New Year and good luck with your own writing.

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