I'm speechless today. Grateful. Tearful. Thanks to all of you who showed such amazing support yesterday. As I feared might happen, Amazon is still showing that they're 2 to 3 weeks out in the shipping, and they didn't put the book on sale like my publisher asked them to. I so wanted to run around saying "don't do it! wait!"
But that's kind of impossible in cyberspace, so I held my breath and waited, feeling guilty that I'd asked people to make a purchase under such inhospitable circumstances.
And then I did what I have to admit was one of my "Yes, this proves she's an idiot moments." At twelve noon I started watching Amazon closely, refreshing every minute or so. The sales rank number was ridiculous. I didn't write it down (wish I had, just for laughs) but it was approx. 7,000,000. Yep, seven millionth in sales.
So I start refreshing, waiting for that number to change, and it doesn't. Over and over again. I start to feel sad. Having a party and nobody's here. I blow on my virtual party horn. A sad little tune. I do this for a full fifteen minutes. Start consoling myself: I didn't send out reminders. They didn't mark the price down. Won't guarantee it by Christmas.
But NOBODY? Come on!
Then it dawns on me. Mr. Publisher Man told me they recalculate every hour. It's not going to show a difference for a full hour. Maybe not for a full day if it's only a little blip. So I walked away. It was hard, but I did it. Checked back in an hour.
Wowser! It had jumped from a rank of seven millionth to #130,148! The next hour got even better: #29,048. By the third hour it was at #11,277.
The number has fallen since then, back into the range of the second hour, and it will continue to fall. And I don't know how many sales that represents. But it does put me up into the world of respectable books. Gives me a jumpstart that would have been impossible to reach any other way.
I still feel so guilty about asking you to buy a book at full price with slow shipping right before Christmas (especially one written by an author who's part-idiot). But I'm just floored that so many of you did.
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!
And in case you're wondering - I'll be announcing the winner of phase one soon!
4 comments:
Well I'm more bummed that a storm took out my computer's modem so I missed purchasing your book during the big hour! And I'd even gone back and put a ticker timer on my blog post to be sure I bought it at the right time! Wah!
So what do I do now? Go ahead and purchase from Amazon (better late than never) or since I'd really prefer an autographed copy (hint, hint, loud hint, dangling chocolates and wearing bells I stole from an elf)is there a way to order one directly from you?
born2bdixie(at)yahoo(dot)com
How wonderful. I am very happy for you, congratulations!
Thanks so much to both of you - yes, email me at into @ suzannevreese.com and I'll tell you how to get that autographed copy.
Those are some seriously respectable numbers!
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