Amazon Best Seller – How I Made It Happen For $26 (And How You Can Too)
Amazon Best Seller
How I Made It Happen For $26
(And How You Can Too)
Yesterday, my book, The Cargo Ship Diaries, became an Amazon best seller.
How the hell did that happen?
Well, I’m doing a free giveaway of the book this week. And I paid a total of $26 to get it listed on some big websites and newsletters (links and details below).
As a result of those efforts, plus some postings on Reddit and Facebook, the book has been downloaded 1000+ times since Monday, which is evidently enough to make it a best seller.
Well, sort of.
See, it’s only a best seller in a sub-sub-sub-sub-sub category of Amazon, and even then only among other free books in that sub-sub-sub-sub-sub category.
What that means is that I’d be a bit of a gobshite to seriously consider myself a best selling author.
That’d be kinda like Donald Trump claiming to be the best basketball player in the world.
You know, among US presidents.
Who are still alive.
And white.
And married to a Slovenian.
(Although that does sound like the kind of thing Trump would say, even without the qualifiers.)
Anyways… that’s how you make your book a best seller on Amazon.
If you ever want to try it yourself, follow the steps below, and then you may proceed to introduce yourself at parties as a best selling author, and I may proceed to call you a gobshite.
Just kidding.
I’d never call you that.
You have a fine gob on you, don’t let anyone tell you different 
