I think I can...I think I can...I think I can...CR*P I can't...wait,yes I can!

First off...a confession!  I apparently SUCK on this whole blogging deal.Or...I could just be uber busy working on my up and coming books!  I'm going to claim the latter of the two.  If only because it makes me sound so proactived.     I will admit though it has been the the truth especially of lately.  We released my first novella in the CROOKED E RANCH series, ~Sweet as Candy~.  So, back again to waiting for any reviews to come rolling in.  I've been practicing the "I don't care face." And the "I just do it for my work not for the praise" face.  Yet, crossing my fingers every time I pull up my link and wait for the page from amazon to appear.  So far? Nuthin'! Not sure about that but I can be a rather impatient girl at times...so after some meditation A.K.A. A shot or two of cotton candy vodka I wait calmly.     Today the sales rank was in the 12,Xxx which means someone, somewhere has downloaded my newest baby.  That's the least I can ask for.  My first book has started moving some also since my novella was released.    Oh,oh,oh!  That reminds me that I need to share my woes from the worst release day like evahhh!  *First it took amazon quite a bit longer than it had before-so unplanned but not unmanageable.  Finally, its been okayed and its ready to go up!  Yay! Press the PUBLISH button and soar birdie soar! * Wait?  What?  My novella is up and available for the masses BUT WITH NO F-in' COVER!  The sexy cowboy abs of steel are no longer gracing my cover.  My pink is there but the black is a light,light gray and my name is nowhere to be seen. Sh*t! Cr*p! And all sorts of other words that I could so cleverly add cute little stars instead of vowels so you can guess the word but yet, I appear so much less vulgar than I really am. (Yay-you got an extra confession!). Back to the book.  We need this fixed and like now!  I call my amazing assistant who was informed "no changes could be made until ~Sweet as Candy~ is LIVE)-whew!  I wipe my forehead and sigh.  Thankful it's not live so that means nobody can buy it yet then but after a long wait I try the link and I can't control the urge to know for sure!  I have to!  I don't have the power captain-to resist!  Yep, I one clicked that book so fast my pointer was slightly bruised for days following.  Guess what?  My "NOT LIVE" book was on my iPad within seconds-impressive but that's besides the point.  Still not allowing us to fix the cover I snoop inside the downloaded novella as does my assistant J.M. Edwards...Sh*t!<---note the cute lil' star! Aren't I sweet?  The text is all messed up!  can this get worse?  Wait, wait, wait...we actually got confused for a moment.  Are we self pubbing or waiting for the cable guy to show up?*Thank ya sweet baby Jesus!  The novella has been up and downloadable for a couple hours with no cover and we couldn't do anything to stop it.  Now J was able to take down that upload and submit a new one.  Back to waiting...by this point it's somewhere around 9:00 p.m.*At 3-something in the morning my novella is finally up and with a gorgeous cover!  Thank you!     Now to make up for my release day debacle I promote and promote and promote!  I post on at least 40 Facebook pages and groups and of course on all 3 of my author pages.  I tweeted, I posted, I shared, I emailed, I even pinned on Pinterest.  Then a few emails came in..."Your link doesn't work""I can't get your book""Is it just me or what?  I can't get to your book to download it."WHAT?     So, once again I check my link...only to be greeted with a message from Amazon."Amazon is temporarily unavailable"REALLY?    I wonder if I should stand still or run in circles as the sky falls on me?Amazon was off then on then off then on.  I have never heard of this happening before so I'm sure it's a fluke but it really had to happen after my horroriffic release day-that I had promoted the livin' h*ll out of...ALL WASTED?!?     I'm not an overly sensitive kinda chick by any means but I was so frustrated that solo much work and hours spent on everything leading up to my novellas release was wasted.  Work and time I spent as well as J.  By this point I'm fully and certifiably p*ssed off and expecting a dreadful sales ranking-if I even made any rank.  Then I looked, stomach churning, mouth dry, eyes closed tight...a final deep breath and was shocked to find ~Sweet as Candy~ at 20,XXX sales ranking, really?  How in the h*ll did that happen?    The only answer?  Is that readers were patient and went back when they had been turned away.  To me that's the greatest.  Anyone can one click like a crackhead on pixie stix and RedBull but for buyers to have to come back at a later time for the link and site to be working is humbling.        My release day may have SUCKED but readers didn't disappoint in the next couple days.  Now, I can only hope that readers will find a special spot for the novella's in the CROOKED E RANCH Series in their kindles-you thought I was going to say heart, didn't you?  Kindle, iPad, computers, tablets, smartphones and of course hearts...I hope my books make it into everyone  of those and readers come back for the next ones coming in the series.  Next novella in the CROOKED E RANCH Series will be ~Pure as Honey~!     Thanks for listening!  You guys are so much cheaper than a therapist and you don't file restraining orders on me.Sidda