A LOT of books!

     This morning I blogged about the reasons behind my decision to make Feels Like the First Time free for your Kindle over the next three days. At the end of the post, I said I would post about how the experience went.
     So far, it has exceeded any expectations I ever had.  In my secret heart, I hoped to register as many as 2,000 downloads over the three day run. That would help our visibility on Amazon tremendously over the next 30 days. If I was really optimistic, I dreamed about cracking the Top 100 Free Bestseller list.
     Instead, we've already registered over 10,000 downloads in less than 24 hours.  I am flabbergasted by that number. It's hard for me to conceive that there are ten thousand people with my story loaded onto their Kindle tonight. 
     In addition to that, we made #1 in the Love and Romance category and #1 in Memoirs. To top it all off, Feels Like the First Time currently sits at #13 in the entire Amazon Free store. Just for fun, here's a screen capture I took a few hours ago, when we were still at #17:      Here's one more quirky little thing I hadn't anticipated... when the book went free in America, it also went free in Europe. That means that somewhere in Great Britain tonight, there are 685 people who downloaded the book. I don't know what someone from London might make of the story of growing up poor in a small town in western Washington State. I hope one of them posts a review so I can find out!
     Since I've never had a book go Free before, I have no idea what comes next. Tonight, I can't even care about what's to come. It thrills me to death to think that there could be thousands of people reading the little story I wrote about falling in love and staying in love. I feel blessed and I would like to say "Thank you" to everyone that helped me spread the word about the promotion.
     And... a huge thank you to Linda Boulanger from Treasure Line Publishing. As much as I'd like to think it was my writing that sucked people into the book, I know the reason that so many people downloaded the book today was because of Linda's accessible, evocative cover.