A bit early for butt smooching, isn’t it?

It’s been a while since I’ve had a really good rant, you know? Well…it isn’t coming today. Heh.

As I said yesterday, my new ebook, A Boy and His Dawg, went on sale at Amazon. I fully expected to go to bed on a no sales day, but I still went out on Twitter and gave it my all on promotions. I got one sale very early on, and that was enough to keep me going for the rest of the day. But nothing else came in by 3AM, so I wandered off to bed. When I woke up, I’d found three more buyers, giving me four for day one. This is one less than I got for Saving Gabriel, and I didn’t expect this to do nearly as well.

And I have to include my other book sales, which gives me a grand total of fifteen sales this month so far. Roughly half of what I made in January, but still not a bad month. I might be able to pick up a few more before the last week closes, but even if I stall here, these numbers aren’t bad. They included books I didn’t promote, and didn’t think I’d be selling any copies of, and I got my first sale from Amazon’s Canada store. Making little baby steps.

I won’t lie. I could use help with more reviews, and I still have yet to release a book to a huge opening day. I got my bar for a great first day set at ten sales, and I’ve yet to hit it once. But the reviews I am getting are mostly positive, and even a slow sales month is a miracle in its own right. While it’s sometimes frustrating to deal with glacial progress, it is still positive progress, and I’m grateful for the support of both my new and old readers.

I know we have a week left to this month, but just in case I forget in the rush of projects in March, I wanted to say thank you to everyone giving me help. Thank you for the sales, for the reviews, and for the help with promotions. What I have now, I have because of you, and I deeply appreciate it.

So, during my next “you people” rant, you people can safely cross yourself off the list of “you people”. I don’t mean you people, I mean the other you people. I’m glad we cleared that up.

Seriously, though. Thank you. I’m constantly amazed that I sell anything when I’m just one lonely little voice in a sea of voices all screaming “Buy my book!” You’ve got plenty of choices for ways to fill your time, and I appreciate that you still spend some time with a crazy lady like me. It does my beady black heart good to know you’re out there reading my stuff, and I’ll continue putting out more new titles to show my appreciation. I’ll also continue to add my PG-13 stories on Wattpad as beta reads, a kind of freebie preview as my way of saying thanks for the continued support.

I’d say I’ll return to the piss and vinegar soon, but I expect my next three book reviews to be highly positive. I don’t know what to tell you, but I did find a genuine wild hair up my butt last week. So maybe my reaction to wild hairs is a random positive streak.

Anywho, have a good weekend, folks. I know mine is already off to a good start. (^_^)