When You Find Yourself on a Best Seller List

Writers know all about reality. 
 We only have to be online for two seconds before we read an article or see a tweet espousing the roadblocks that lay before us. 
 We know how insanely difficult it is to get an agent. Once we get an agent, we discover how many steps we have to pass through in order to get a book contract. Once we have the contract, we find out crazy things. Like the average book only sells a thousand copies and most authors don't earn out their advance and forget about making...