LoveYouSoHardHi–

Not meaning to belabor this point, but i am HAPPY DANCING over the amazing Amazon Rank surprise i have gotten the last week and a half. As i told you earlier, i posted Love You so Hard at Amazon for 99 cents with the idea that they would price match it to zero. But people started buying it. Like crazy. And the” little book that could” climbed and climbed the charts until it was number 1 in gay romance and gay fiction and gay and lesbian fiction. Yes, this is very cool! As i’m writing this, it is still number 1 in all three categories. But that wasn’t the most amazing thing. I’ve had the privilege of having books that were number 1 in my genres at Amazon before. It’s a fabulous thrill. But what was new with Love You So Hard was the Rank. It hit 500 in the Kindle Store.

Rank at Amazon is a relative thing. Your book is compared against every other book selling in the Kindle Store. If a lot of books are selling well in other categories but not so much in yours, you might be number one in gay romance when your book is 1000 or 1200 in the Kindle Store. But lately, gay romance has been very popular. Books that rank number one are usually below 1000 in the Kindle Store. When F.A.S.T. Balls was number 2 in gay romance a couple months ago, it was above 1000 but the number one book was below 1000. This means you have to sell a lot of books to be the number 1 book in gay romance LoveYouSoHard_432these days. Which is great news for all of us. So that brings me to Love You So Hard. It kept selling more and more copies and i watched it go from number 10 to 6 to 4. And then it was number 2! I was amazed but i checked the rank of the number 1 book and it was well below 1000. I never thought my little novella would make it. But it did. The next day, the book plunged below 1000 and took over the number 1 spot. And it’s been there for days. Right now, it’s climbed out of the 500s into the 600s but it’s still number 1. It may lose it’s number 1 position soon but i’m sure grateful to have held it forr so many days.

For an author, it’s mind-blowing. In the Kindle store which has over 1 million books, my little novella stacked up against Harry Potter and the Bible and 50 Shades of Grey to rank just over 500! Wow. That is worth the champagne my husband bought me at lunch today to celebrate. Okay, i’ll stop talking about it now. Thank you so much for coming by! : )