Charles Miske Author

Like Hiking with a Backpack Full of Helium! [originally posted 05-29-2014] Update: New Program Now Live Annual Membership http://hikercize.com If you've been following my mountaineering fitness blogs, I've already given you hundreds of tips. I've produced training videos. I've shared my own training, my own adventures, even some of my secrets to my own success. I've shared articles from other trainers and authorities that I respect greatly. If you haven't been following my articles, here are the two links to those: Seven Summits Body on Blogger Seven Summits Body Website Last Chance For Paperback! Clearance On First Edition Paperbacks Limited Stock On Hand. New Webcasts: Stair Climbing for Mountaineering Fitness [ CLICK HERE ] Shoes, Boots, Socks for Hiking, Mountaineering [ CLICK HERE ] Food, Water, Emergency Gear in the Day Hiking Backpack [ CLICK HERE ] I began the Mountaineering Fitness manual after getting hundreds of questio...

[originally published 09-13-2014] Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging My latest book has been live now in paperback for one full day, and on Pre-Order for Kindle for a little over a week. In that time I've gone up the Amazon Author Ranking quite a bit. Here are a couple of views: Kindle, Sept 12: Amazon Author Rank 12 Sept 2014 from pre-release of Kindle Edition of Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging Kindle, Sept 13: Amazon Author Rank 13 Sept 2014 from pre-release of Kindle Edition of Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging Paperback, Sept 12: Amazon Author Rank 12 Sept 2014 from release of Paperback Edition of Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging Paperback, Sept 13: Amazon Author Rank 13 Sept 2014 from release of Paperback Edition of Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging I'm ...

[originally posted 09-18-2014] Bottom Line? I have had the best "organic" sales ever for a new book release. By "organic" I mean not using under the table tactics and techniques to artificially inflate sales statistics in the hope of attracting new buyers or getting a feather in my cap to wave in the air for marketing purposes. Buy on Amazon -  CLICK HERE Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging The rest of the story.. It was an awesome and amazing first week for my new book Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging  CLICK HERE FOR MORE . In my recent article Amazon Author Stats  CLICK HERE  I showed how popular my book was in two key categories on Amazon. Part of the Kindle stats came from pre-orders. This was the first book that I was eligible to offer for pre-order and it went pretty good. I'll probably do it again for a big book. It's a little bit of a hassle for any book less th...

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[originally blogged 14 Oct 2014] So it's been about a month now and it's been really great. I've sold way more than I expected and it's been a ton of fun answering questions and chatting with people on Facebook about this book. I finally got an awesome 5-star review and just today got a bump in Kindle sales that skyrocketed me into the #1870 position in authors for the Health/Fitness Genre. That's amazing for not having run a free promo. Summit Success Kindle Stats from 10/13/2014 I'm expecting a slew of more reviews to be coming in as more people finish this book. It's a good 340 pages of intense reading, so I expect it will be a while for a lot of people to get it done and posted. Here's a sample personal review I received via email: And the charts, you put a LOT of work into those! Too bad most readers don't really understand what all goes into writing a book and doing the photos and charts and graphs and all the research and math ...