Going Best Seller on Amazon

Saturday started off much as any other day for me. I did my writing, read my email, played around online a little.  And checked my sales for The Opposite of Normal.

Friday I had done a promotion. I'd offered The Opposite of Normal free to anyone who wanted to download it to his or her Kindle.  I'd chosen the date about a week in advance and then sent my free download information to every ebook news outlet I could find, and there were a ton! All in all, I probably sent news of my free download to at least fifty or sixty outlets -- I never counted -- and then waited to see what would happen, fearing that nothing, in fact, would happen.

On Friday, thousands and thousands of people downloaded The Opposite of Normal for free. I was thrilled. I hoped that some of them would tell their friends this book was pretty good, or they would write a review, good or bad, or that they would somehow let me know what they thought of it.  That's where I thought the story would end.

But on Saturday morning, when the free promotion had ended and people had to buy again, I noticed that many, many people were actually buying The Opposite of Normal. And throughout the day, my numbers were not just creeping -- but flying -- upwards. By the end of the day, The Opposite of Normal was best selling in Jewish fiction, Jewish American Fiction, and Family Life Fiction. It also was very high in the overall Fiction category. Child of Mine (my first book) never got so high. (But, it, too feels the bump of The Opposite of Normal, and is being sold once again.)

Every time I logged on to see my number, I got a little nervous. What if it went lower? What if it didn't stay up there?  But indeed, it stayed nice and high all day. I sold more books on Saturday than I sold in the previous month, since The Opposite of Normal was first released.

Sunday things started sliding downward a bit, and since then, as well.  That's to be expected. But I'm still selling every day, and still I'm having quite good days.  Now I just have to hope that people will like it enough to tell someone else, to write a review, to reach out to me.  Ah, the life of an author...we write, we promote, we write, we promote....