TinaMigarlo
Apparently my pronouns are now: "it". Thanks, guys
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- Jan 9, 2026
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When you first start out in one of the bigger genre tags... it seems daunting.
"Mystery" tag for instance. 945 stories as of now.
When you start out at #945... its a little disheartening. LOL.
Coming up through that big list, I remember saying it.
(I talk to my cat. sue me.)
"I hope I can hit the top 100..."
I just realized, I hit #98 out of 945 in "mystery" (page 4)
and moving up though slow. I should be #96 in no time.
I know that's not "success", but when you grew used to "no readers", its something.
My theory... better to be almost nothing, than just plain nothing.
HUMOR:
When I do covers, you see things like "from the New York Times best-selling author" above the author's name?
Yeah, I delete that shit and just roll with my author's name, lol.
I have seen "from award winning author..." tag (but that's not me either. *sigh*)
But would I technically be lying, to say...
"From the top 100 Mystery author,
Tina Migarlo"
I mean, as I ratchet up a couple more spots, I'll be "top 10%" in my mystery genre.
which, just like wanting to crack the 100 list,
I thought top ten percent sounded like I did almost nothing, instead of just nothing.
*shrugs*
I take what i can get.
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I feel my "important" if only to me tags are...
Mystery and Investigation.
Investigation, is 11 pages, and I cracked page 2. (#43)
I know, not enough for "discoverability" yet.
and no, I don't see page one in my crystal ball.
I only started looking at this stuff,
when the story page one day announced by itself "number so and so in "Nightmares".
I'm #31 in Nightmares (page 2 near the top), but I don't really see page one material in my future there.
But that's the one the system always decides to auto-advertise, so whatever.
Watching this stuff is turning me into a complete numbers-whore, LMAO
"Mystery" tag for instance. 945 stories as of now.
When you start out at #945... its a little disheartening. LOL.
Coming up through that big list, I remember saying it.
(I talk to my cat. sue me.)
"I hope I can hit the top 100..."
I just realized, I hit #98 out of 945 in "mystery" (page 4)
and moving up though slow. I should be #96 in no time.
I know that's not "success", but when you grew used to "no readers", its something.
My theory... better to be almost nothing, than just plain nothing.
HUMOR:
When I do covers, you see things like "from the New York Times best-selling author" above the author's name?
Yeah, I delete that shit and just roll with my author's name, lol.
I have seen "from award winning author..." tag (but that's not me either. *sigh*)
But would I technically be lying, to say...
"From the top 100 Mystery author,
Tina Migarlo"
I mean, as I ratchet up a couple more spots, I'll be "top 10%" in my mystery genre.
which, just like wanting to crack the 100 list,
I thought top ten percent sounded like I did almost nothing, instead of just nothing.
*shrugs*
I take what i can get.
------------------------------------------
I feel my "important" if only to me tags are...
Mystery and Investigation.
Investigation, is 11 pages, and I cracked page 2. (#43)
I know, not enough for "discoverability" yet.
and no, I don't see page one in my crystal ball.
I only started looking at this stuff,
when the story page one day announced by itself "number so and so in "Nightmares".
I'm #31 in Nightmares (page 2 near the top), but I don't really see page one material in my future there.
But that's the one the system always decides to auto-advertise, so whatever.
Watching this stuff is turning me into a complete numbers-whore, LMAO
