More butt smooching is required here, NAO.

Well, today’s been good. I was still feeling real good about a 5-star review I got on A Boy and His Dawg on Amazon. This felt good because the book just came out. That meant the reviewer had to have read the book in one day, right after they bought it. And okay, it IS a short novel, but they really liked it!

But that’s not all. After I got back from dinner, I found an email from the reviewer, who said they’d bought some of my other books. They bought the books through my blog bookstore. They bought ELEVEN books in the same pass, one day after they read one of my books and posted a 5-star review.

“Whoa, Zoe, that’s awesome!” you say. “How often does that happen?” Once. It’s happened once before that someone read one book from me and opted to buy lots of other books. (Actually, they bought a copy of everything I’d written up to then, AND they added a tip over the amount I quoted.)

“Wow—” you say, but I cut you off, because there’s more. I sold four books on Amazon, including another copy of A Boy and His Dawg in France, my first ever sale in France. (I also got my first sale in Canada this month.) And I sold two more books on Gumroad. That’s seventeen sales, in one day.

But it gets even better! Theses numbers mean I have 34 sales for February, two higher than I had in January. I JUST set that record, and I beat it in a shorter month, with a week left over to nudge the numbers up slightly higher.

I did a post yesterday taking time to kiss butt for the monthly quota I already had, but a day this phenomenal requires that I get on one knee and take some extra time loving your backsides with genuine gratitude. And, may I say, your backside is looking very nice.

Without readers, no writer is complete, no matter what level of the craft they work at or the quality of their writing. My stories are meaningless if no one looked at them, and I get a little charge of motivation every time I check my stats and see another sale. So imagine how I feel when I’ve had a record breaking day, AND a record breaking month, both on the same day.

I cannot convey my gratitude properly for your continued support. You inspire me to keep searching for new ideas, and you keep me going even when I’m drag ass tired. For everything you do, thank you. Y’all are awesome.