I check Amazon sales about every other day. If I'm bored, it's more often than that. If I'm busy, I can go for a couple days, and then it will dawn on me that I haven't checked recently. This morning I logged on and went to my monthly report page. Last day of the month, another book launching tomorrow . . . it's a good day to at least get an update.
There on the screen in front of me was a red line that shot up on the graph. If you've only sold one book in the month, shooting up on the graph can mean you've sold ten. However, I did a free promotion of FALL when FLY released (on February 14), and that resulted in about 550 downloads. Therefore, for a red line to shoot up on my current report, it would have to be over 300-ish. On the Amazon report, by the way, the red line indicates SOLD books, the blue line indicates Kindle Unlimited books read and the green line indicates free books.
I have no idea why this is happening. On average I sell between one and five books a day. I'm a self-published author, with little marketing taking place currently. It's the books with publishers behind them that sell . . . it's just a fact of life.
So for my little books to be showing these numbers it must mean Amazon is promoting me, or my books today. I have no way of knowing, or no way of knowing if there is a way to know. All I can do right now is marvel. And pace. And hit the refresh button on the screen every thirty seconds or so. The next big update will come in eight minutes. That's when I'll see where my books are sitting in the "sold books" ranks. FLY was sitting at 2,503 as of 11:00am.
My head is pounding . . . change in atmospheric pressure is the assumed culprit, and overall I just don't feel great today. But this feeling overcomes all others.
People are buying books I wrote. Let me repeat that . . . people are buying books I wrote. I wrote books that people are buying. Wow. I mean . . . wow.
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