Charging back to the top of our list of bestselling titles on the Smashwords platform for the month of April is Diary of an Oxygen Thief, a novel described as Fight Club meets Mad Men, that was written by an anonymous author.
It's an exciting time for that still-anonymous author: After he or she sold the screen rights to Oxygen Thief to Gotham Group last month, the North American rights to the book were quickly snapped up by Jeremie Ruby-Straus at Gallery, the Simon & Schuster imprint.
But, according to Smashwords CEO Mark Coker, the third installment in the Oxygen Thief Diaries series -- which was not included in the deal -- will be released in October by Smashwords.
As per usual, romance is in the air at Smashwords. The rest of the top five is dominated by romance titles -- with Olivia Thorne grabbing a brace of slots with two installments in her The Rock Star's Seduction series -- while 16 of 25 total titles on the April list were romances.
Rank | Title | Author | ISBN | Genre | Price |
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1 | Diary Of An Oxygen Thief | Anonymous | 9781452409535 | Fiction | $9.99 |
2 | Bounty | Kristen Ashley | 9781310258299 | Romance | $3.99 |
3 | Fated | R.L. Mathewson | 9781310662317 | Paranormal Romance | $2.99 |
4 | Rock All Night | Olivia Thorne | 9781940989075 | Romance | $4.99 |
5 | Hard As Rock | Olivia Thorne | 9781940989099 | Romance | $4.99 |
6 | Broken Silence | Natasha Preston | 9781301920686 | Romance | $2.99 |
7 | Den of Sorrows | Quinn Loftis | 9781311050311 | Fantasy | $3.99 |
8 | The Phoenix Requiem | Richard L. Sanders | 9781310594298 | Science-Fiction | $7.99 |
9 | The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) | Hal Elrod | 9780979019760 | Self-Help | $9.97 |
10 | Beautiful Burn | Jamie McGuire | 9781310232152 | Romance | $5.99 |
11 | Jase | Geri Glenn | 9781310728334 | Romance | $2.99 |
12 | Broken Lives | Brenda Kennedy | 9781310235658 | Romance | $3.99 |
13 | Mending Hearts | Brenda Kennedy | 9781311520401 | Romance | $3.99 |
14 | Christmas From Hell | R.L. Mathewson | 9781310090110 | Romance | $2.99 |
15 | Kindling Flames: Flying Sparks | Julie Wetzel | 9781634220163 | Paranormal Romance | $4.99 |
16 | Sidebarred | Emma Chase | 9780997426205 | Romance | $2.99 |
17 | Pieces of Eight | Melissa Wright | 9781465925046 | Fantasy | $2.99 |
18 | Forever | Chanda Hahn | 9780996104821 | YA Fiction | $4.99 |
19 | Underland | Chanda Hahn | 9780996104845 | YA Fiction | $3.99 |
20 | Kindling Flames: Smoke Rising | Julie Wetzel | 9781634220446 | Paranormal Romance | $5.99 |
21 | Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages | Natasha Preston | 9781311298089 | Romance | $2.99 |
22 | Deep | Skye Warren | 9781940518435 | Romance | $4.99 |
23 | A Second Chance | Shayne Parkinson | 9781452303871 | Fiction | $3.99 |
24 | Kindling Flames: Burning Nights | Julie Wetzel | 9781634221849 | Paranormal Romance | $5.99 |
25 | Mud and Gold | Shayne Parkinson | 9781452303802 | Fiction | $2.99 |
Correction: A Previous version of this story stated that the second installment in the Oxygen Thief Diaries series was due out in October. It is the third installment that will released in October.